Table 4.

Staffing Patterns of Weekend Physiotherapy Services at Community Hospitals

	Variable	Saturday					Sunday					Holiday
Variable	Mean (SD)	Median	Range	No. of sites responding		Mean (SD)	Median	Range	No. of sites responding		Mean (SD)	Median	Range	No. of sites responding
No. of PTs working*	1.6 (1.0)†	1	0.0–6.0	68		1.3 (1.2)	1	0.0–6.0	68		1.2 (1.1)	1	0.0–6.0	68
No. of PTAs working‡	0.9 (0.8)§	1	0.0–4.0	68		0.8 (0.8)	1	0.0–4.0	67		0.6 (0.8)	0	0.0–4.0	68
No. of hours worked per PT	6.2 (1.9)	7.2	0.0–9.0	67		5.1 (3.1)	7.0	0.0–9.0	67		4.9 (3.2)	6.7	0.0–9.0	65
No. of hours worked per PTA¶	4.8 (3.4)§	7.0	0.0–10.5	68		3.9 (3.6)	4.0	0.0–9.0	67		3.0 (3.5)	0.0	0.0–9.0	68

^*Distributions significantly different between days (Kruskal–Wallis test, p=0.020).

^†Post-hoc pair-wise comparisons show distributions on Saturdays significantly different from on holidays (Mann–Whitney U test, p=0.010).

^‡Distributions significantly different between days (Kruskal–Wallis test, p=0.011).

^§Post-hoc pair-wise comparisons show distributions on Saturdays significantly different from on holidays (Mann–Whitney U test, p=0.002).

^¶Distributions significantly different between days (Kruskal–Wallis test, p=0.009).

PT=physiotherapist; PTA=physiotherapist assistant.