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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 2.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Intern Med. 2013 Jul 8;173(13):1186–1195. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.1026

Table 2.

Mediation analysis of hospital factors which may account for the correlation between hospital rates of cardiac arrest incidence and case-survival

Adjusted Models Correlation P-value
No Adjustment Factors -0.16 0.003
Patient Case-Mix -0.15 0.004

Mediation Analysis Correlation P-value

Patient Case-Mix and All Hospital Factors Together -0.07 0.18
Patient Case-Mix and All Hospital Factors One-by-One
 Urban vs. rural -0.15 0.004
 Teaching status -0.15 0.004
 Hospital beds -0.15 0.004
 Trauma center -0.14 0.01
 Ownership -0.13 0.01
 Nurse-to-bed ratio -0.12 0.02
 Region -0.12 0.03