Table 2.

Nursing homes with high vs. low transfer rates to the ED – presentation of variables analysed with Mann–Whitney analysis

	Transfer rates to the ED		z; p
	High, n = 5	Low, n = 6
	Min‐max/M; Md
Characteristics of nursing homes
Number of beds	20–80/44; 42	22–51/34; 29.5	0.6; 0.52
RNs ratio/resident	0.05–0.19/0.11; 0.09	0.08–0.24/0.14; 0.14	0.7; 0.46
Assistant nurses ratio/resident	0.43–2.47/1.52; 1.73	0.92–1.92/1.58; 1.64	0.4; 0.71
Interviewed RNs’ work experience
Years as RN	2.5–26/10.3;7	12–30/20.5;20	1.8; 0.07
Years in care for the older people	2–5.5/3.2;2.5	11–30/16.3;14.5	2.8; <0.01