Table 2.
Descriptive statistics for departmental-level quality management activities (independent variable)
| Quality management strategies, mean (SD) | Condition |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMI (N = 73) | Deliveries (N = 72) | Hip fracture (N = 73) | Stroke (N = 73) | |
| SER | 2.7 (1.1) | 2.8 (1.1) | 2.2 (0.9) | 2.7 (1.2) |
| EBOP | 3.2 (0.9) | 3.7 (0.3) | 2.3 (1.1) | 3.0 (1.0) |
| PSS | 2.6 (0.5) | 2.7 (0.6) | 2.5 (0.5) | 2.5 (0.6) |
| CR | 2.1 (1.4) | 2.4 (1.4) | 1.4 (1.3) | 1.9 (1.5) |
All measures for quality management at service level were on a range of 0 = no compliance to 4 = full compliance.