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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2013 Jan;51(1):52–59. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182763284

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)

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

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