TABLE 2.
Numbers and Percentages of Study Hospitals With Different Characteristics, and Numbers and Percentages of Patients and Nurses in Them
Hospitals (n=412) | Patients (n=375,681) | Nurses (n=20,585) | |||
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Heart Failure (n=171,883) | Acute Myocardial Infarction (n=62,394) | Pneumonia (n=141,404) | |||
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Hospital Characteristic | No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) |
State | |||||
CA | 210 (51) | 71,075 (41) | 28,482 (45) | 69,339 (49) | 8,122 (40) |
NJ | 68 (17) | 31,933 (19) | 8,992 (14) | 24,463 (17) | 5,581 (27) |
PA | 134 (33) | 68,875 (40) | 25,920 (41) | 47,602 (34) | 6,882 (33) |
Urban | 362 (88) | 157,219 (91) | 58,464 (92) | 128,361 (91) | 19,162 (93) |
Ownership | |||||
For profit | 37 (9) | 10,027 (6) | 3,512 (6) | 9,894 (7) | 1,029 (5) |
Not for profit | 375 (91) | 161,856 (94) | 59,882 (94) | 131,510 (93) | 19,556 (95) |
High technology | 183 (44) | 97,771 (57) | 46,281 (73) | 72,633 (51) | 12,539 (61) |
Hospital size | |||||
Small | 41 (10) | 7,227 (4) | 1,407 (2) | 7,886 (6) | 680 (3) |
Medium | 191 (46) | 65,022 (38) | 19,113 (30) | 56,809 (40) | 6,363 (31) |
Large | 180 (44) | 99,634 (58) | 42,874 (68) | 76,709 (54) | 13,542 (66) |
Teaching Status | |||||
Non-teaching | 209 (51) | 78,033 (45) | 26,111 (41) | 70,904 (50) | 7,929 (39) |
Minor teaching | 161 (39) | 72,402 (42) | 27,162 (43) | 57,397 (41) | 8,899 (43) |
Major teaching | 42 (10) | 21,448 (12) | 10,121 (16) | 13,103 (9) | 3,757 (18) |
Work Environment | |||||
Poor | 118 (29) | 52,210 (30) | 17,050 (27) | 39,690 (28) | 5,107 (25) |
Mixed | 174 (42) | 72,291 (42) | 27,826 (44) | 61,358 (43) | 8,947 (44) |
Good | 120 (29) | 47,382 (28) | 18,518 (29) | 40,356 (29) | 6,531 (32) |
Nurse staffing (patients/nurse) | |||||
Less than 4 | 85 (21) | 28,542 (17) | 11,872 (19) | 26,505 (19) | 4,123 (20) |
4-less than 5 | 148 (36) | 64,823 (38) | 27,009 (43) | 53,449 (38) | 7,969 (39) |
5-less than 6 | 106 (26) | 48,774 (28) | 16,749 (26) | 37,629 (27) | 5,540 (27) |
6-less than 7 | 50 (12) | 22,764 (13) | 6,082 (10) | 18,192 (13) | 2,341 (11) |
7 or more | 23 (6) | 6,980 (4) | 1,682 (3) | 5,629 (4) | 612 (3) |
Nurse education (BSN) | |||||
Less than 20% | 25 (6) | 7,423 (4) | 1,792 (3) | 7,379 (5) | 628 (3) |
20%–29% | 89 (22) | 35,259 (21) | 11,342 (18) | 29,236 (21) | 3,519 (17) |
30%–39% | 103 (25) | 45,176 (26) | 17,951 (28) | 36,481 (26) | 5,347 (26) |
40%–49% | 112 (27) | 47,594 (28) | 18,248 (29) | 39,560 (28) | 5,954 (29) |
50% or more | 83 (20) | 36,431 (21) | 14,061 (22) | 28,748 (20) | 5,137 (25) |
Note: BSN, bachelor of science in nursing