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. 2011 Dec 20;11:344. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-344

Table 2.

Distribution of hospitals in the sample

Hospitals participating in the MARQuIS Project, SPAIN Hospitals participating in MARQuIS, but not in IASIST Hospitals participating in MARQuIS and IASIST p-value
N Hospitals 113 62 43

Hospital type
University 32 (28.3%) 14 (23.0%) 16 (37.2%) 0.184$
General teaching 59 (52.2%) 33 (54.1%) 22 (51.2%)
General non-teaching 21 (18.6%) 14 (23.0%) 5 (11.6%)

Hospital ownership
Public 89 (78.8%) 46 (74.2%) 36 (83.7%) 0.127$
Private not profit 10 (8.8%) 5 (8.1%) 5 (11.6%)
Private for profit 14 (12.4%) 11 (17.7%) 2 (4.7%)

Hospital beds
Mean (median) 445 (333) 440 (323) 506 (338) 0.104*

Maturity Index**
Mean (SD) 2.58 (0.69) 2.57 (0.36) 2.61 (0.29) 0.510*
Median 2.61 2.59 2.64
Min 1.7 1.7 1.92
Max 3.26 3.26 3.18

$Fisher's Exact Test; * U-Mann-Whitney Test, ** MI scale: 0 (highest maturity) to 4 (lowest maturity); n = 105 hospitals