Table 1.

Characteristics of hospitals participating in the analysis

Characteristic	n	%
Number of hospitals	74	100
Teaching status, n (%)
Teaching	33	45
Non-teaching	41	55
Ownership, n (%)
Public hospitals	59	80
Private (or mixed ownership)	15	20
Approximate number of beds in hospital
<200	7	9
200–500	22	30
501–1000	31	42
>1000	14	19