Table 2.

Distribution of Patients by Hospital Characteristics for Each Condition

Hospital characteristics	Heart failure (n = 239,953)	Acute myocardial infarction (n = 193,421)	Pneumonia (n = 350,740)
Teaching status
Nonteaching	140,096 (58%)	106,221 (55%)	218,237 (62%)
Minor teaching	76,757 (32%)	63,496 (33%)	103,373 (29%)
Major teaching	23,100 (10%)	23,704 (12%)	29,130 (8%)
Bed size
Small	29,963 (12%)	13,896 (7%)	56,706 (16%)
Medium	78,539 (33%)	55,815 (29%)	120,848 (34%)
Large	131,451 (55%)	123,710 (64%)	173,186 (49%)
High technology hospitals	128,448 (54%)	127,502 (66%)	177,657 (51%)