Table 2.
Hospital Demographicsa
| Demographic | No. (%) |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Rural | 586 (38.1) |
| Urban | 951 (61.8) |
| Hospital size | |
| Small | 612 (39.8) |
| Medium | 417 (27.1) |
| Large | 508 (33.0) |
| Teaching status | |
| Teaching | 301 (19.6) |
| Nonteaching | 1236 (80.3) |
| Trauma center accreditationb | |
| Level I | 95 (6.2) |
| Level II | 113 (7.3) |
| Level III | 150 (9.8) |
| None | 650 (42.2) |
| Missing | 530 (34.4) |
| Geographic region | |
| Northeast | 215 (14.0) |
| South | 604 (39.3) |
| Midwest | 424 (20.7) |
| West | 296 (19.2) |
a
Hospital demographics for study sample. The bed size corresponding to small, medium, and large varies depending on the geographic region, rural vs urban, and teaching status. The number of hospitals within each category does not add up to 1539 because of missing data on hospital demographics.
b
Thirty-four percent of the hospitals in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample were missing American Hospital Association AHAID identifiers and could not be linked to the American Hospital Association database to determine trauma center designation status.