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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 4.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Med. 2014 Jan;89(1):71–76. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000048

Table 3. Forceps Delivery Volumes from Nine States in 2008, According to State Inpatient Data, By Hospital Category*.

Hospital category No. forceps deliveries P value
≤ 5 6-15 16-25 ≥ 26
Major teaching, no. (%) 13/57 (22.8) 15/57 (26.3) 9/57 (15.8) 20/57 (35.1) < .0001
Minor teaching, no. (%) 44/100 (44.0) 30/100 (30.0) 8/100 (8.0) 18/100 (18.0) < .0001
Nonteaching, no. (%) 210/358 (58.7) 87/358 (24.3) 29/358 (8.1) 32/358 (8.9) < .0001
*

We categorized hospitals that were members of the Association of American Medical Colleges' Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems (COTH) as major teaching hospitals, non-COTH hospitals that had one or more accredited residency training program as minor teaching hospitals, and all other hospitals as nonteaching hospitals.