Table 1.
Characteristic | Study Sample EDBA Participants n=723* |
EDBA Non-Participants n=2303 |
---|---|---|
Metro Location (%) | 78.3% | 69.0% |
Region (%) | ||
Northeast | 10.8% | 17.4% |
South | 55.6% | 38.2% |
West | 16.5% | 19.5% |
Midwest | 17.2% | 25.0% |
Ownership (%) | ||
Public | 11.8% | 16.8% |
Not-For-Profit | 53.0% | 67.8% |
For-Profit | 35.3% | 15.5% |
Teaching Hospital (%) | 8.6% | 7.9% |
Trauma Center (%) | 23.9% | 21.2% |
Psychiatric Inpatient Services (%)** | 38.3% | 37.1% |
Psychiatric Consultation Services (%)** | 35.1% | 37.0% |
Health System Centralization (%) | ||
Centralized Health System | 12.9% | 12.0% |
Centralized Physician/Insurance Health System | 0.1% | 0.3% |
Moderately Centralized Health System | 0.0% | 0.2% |
Decentralized Health System | 66.3% | 49.7% |
Independent Hospital System | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Unknown | 20.8% | 37.9% |
Independent Practice Association (%)** | 8.0% | 7.5% |
Group Practice Without Walls (%)** | 1% | 2.4% |
Open Physician- Hospital Organization (%)** | 13.4% | 12.7% |
Closed Physician- Hospital Organization (%)** | 3.7% | 3.9% |
Integrated Salary Model (%)** | 30.6% | 34.7% |
Equity Model (%)** | 0.8% | 0.7% |
Foundation Model (%)** | 5.5% | 3.3% |
Preferred Provider Organization (%)** | 4.0% | 4.5% |
Indemnity Fee for Service Plan (%)** | 1.7% | 1.4% |
Annual Occupancy (median, 25th-75th percentile)£ | 0.58 (0.44 – 0.69) | 0.53 (0.39 – 0.66) |
Annual ICU Occupancy (median, 25th-75th percentile)¥ | 0.61 (0.47 – 0.75) | 0.57 (0.43 – 0.72) |
Annual ED Visits (median, 25th-75th percentile) |
38,029 (22,510 – 61,564) |
29,776 (16,052 – 50,411) |
Annual Hospital Admissions (median, 25th-75th percentile) |
9101 (4,518 – 16,679) |
6,839 (2,834 – 13,534) |
CMS Case-Mix Index (median, 25th-75th percentile) † | 1.48 (1.32 – 1.66) | 1.43 (1.25 – 1.63) |
There were 33,336,348 ED visits in 2012 to the study sample hospitals (from the AHA Survey File). The aggregate visits used to generate ED timeliness measures (from CMS Hospital Compare): ED1b-419,697; ED2b- 403,675; OP18b- 374,805; OP20- 398,132
Data missing for 16.7% of EDBA participants and 14.4% of EDBA non-participants.
Annual occupancy missing for 4% of EDBA participants and 4% of EDBA non-participants.
Annual ICU occupancy missing for 9.1% of EDBA participants and 15.6% of EDBA non-participants.
CMS Case-Mix Index missing for 0.8% of EDBA participants and 1.0% of EDBA non-participants.