EXHIBIT 2.
Number Of Matched Pairings Of Hospitals, By High And Low Registered Nurse Staffing Category
| Low registered nurse staffing hospital groups | High registered nurse staffing hospital groups
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (lowest) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 (highest) | |
| 1 | 0 | 118 | 175 | 126 | 53 |
| 2 | – | 0 | 126 | 201 | 148 |
| 3 | – | – | 0 | 96 | 198 |
| 4 | – | – | – | 0 | 172 |
| 5 | – | – | – | – | 0 |
SOURCE Authors’ analysis of matched pairs from data on 2,826 hospitals. NOTE Each cell indicates the number of low staffing/high staffing pairs that were created based on the hospital quintile category of staffing.