Table 1.
Hospital characteristics for respondents and nonrespondents
| Respondents n = 317 |
Nonrespondents n = 182 |
P value* |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital region, n (%) | |||
| Midwest | 88 (28%) | 39 (21) | .39 |
| Northeast | 48 (15) | 34 (19) | |
| South | 122 (38) | 76 (42) | |
| West | 59 (19) | 33 (18) | |
| Hospital location, n (%) | |||
| Metropolitan | 226 (71) | 136 (75) | .81 |
| Micropolitan | 63 (20) | 31 (17) | |
| Rural | 28 (9) | 15 (8) | |
| Type of hospital ownership, n (%) | |||
| Public | 41 (13) | 26 (14) | .26 |
| For-profit | 217 (68) | 112 (62) | |
| Not-for-profit | 59 (19) | 44 (24) | |
| Hospital size, n (%) | |||
| Small (<100 beds) | 86 (27) | 55 (30) | .70 |
| Midsize (100 to <400 beds) | 186 (59) | 100 (55) | |
| Large (≥400 beds) | 45 (14) | 27 (15) | |
| Number of ICU beds, n (%) | |||
| ≤15 ICU beds | 164 (52) | 101 (55) | .42 |
| >15 ICU beds | 153 (48) | 81 (45) | |
| Teaching hospital type, n (%) | |||
| Graduate | 46 (15) | 30 (17) | .77 |
| Major teaching | 30 (9) | 14 (8) | |
| Minor teaching | 28 (9) | 13 (7) | |
| Nonteaching | 213 (67) | 125 (69) | |
| % Medicare admissions, median (range) | 45% (0%–77%) | 46% (11%–77%) | .65 |
| % Medicaid admissions, median (range) | 17% (0.3%–76%) | 17% (2%–77%) | .35 |
| RN FTE per 1,000 patient-days, median (range) | 6.8 (0.4–34.7) | 6.8 (0.2–17.2) | .82 |
FTE, full-time equivalents; ICU, intensive care unit; RN, registered nurse.
*
Wilcoxon rank-sum test or χ2 test.