Table 2.
Differences between patients who have and have not compared hospitals regarding factors influencing hospital choice
| Patients who have compared hospitals (n = 71) | Patients who have not compared hospitals (n = 266) |
Test of difference | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X2 | p | ||||
| Did you deliberately choose for this hospital? | Yes | 67 (94.4) | 198 (74.4) | 13.25 | < 0.001 |
| What issues have played a role in your choice? | Own previous experience | 34 (47.9) | 115 (43.2) | 0.49 | 0.48 |
| Experience of people from my environment | 22 (31.0) | 35 (13.2) | 12.68 | < 0.001 | |
| Advice from the general practitioner | 21 (29.6) | 94 (35.3) | 0.83 | 0.36 | |
| Public information in the media | 9 (12.7) | 4 (1.5) | 18.86 | < 0.001 | |
| None | 0 (0.0) | 3 (1.1) | 0.81 | 1.00 | |
| Patients have the right to choose their own hospital. Did you know that you can choose in which hospital you want to be treated? |
Yes | 70 (98.6%) | 250 (94.0%) | 2.48 | 0.14 |
| Are you aware of information on hospitals, which you can use to compare hospitals? | Yes | 36 (50.7%) | 162 (60.9%) | 0.41 | 0.12 |
| If Yes: Do you know were you can find this information? | Yes | 28 (77.8%) | 110 (67.9%) | 1.36 | 0.24 |
| Did you look up information on more than one hospital? | No, I did not look up information | 32 (45.1) | 195 (73.3) | ||
| No, I only looked up for information regarding the hospital I visited | 12 (16.9) | 36 (13.5) | 28.58 | < 0.001 | |
| Yes, I looked up information regarding other hospitals, I compared the hospitals and then made a choice | 13 (18.3) | 11 (4.1) | |||
| Other | 14 (19.7) | 24 (9.0) | |||
Significant differences are presented in bold. Multiple answers were possible in some questions.