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Institutional characteristics of California hospitals with labor and delivery, by hospital volume.
| Overall (n=268 hospitals) | Hospital volume category (deliveries/year) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1: 50 – 1199 (n=98) | 2: 1200 – 2399 (n=84) | 3: 2400 – 3599 (n=55) | 4: ≥3600 (n=31) | |||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Rural | 57 | 21 | 48 | 49 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0* |
| Teaching hospitals § | 26 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 9 | 29* |
P<0.001 on Fisher’s exact test
There was no overlap between rural hospitals and teaching hospitals.
