Figure 2.

Inter-hospital variation in cirrhosis mortality explained by individual facility characteristics. Across the 72733 cirrhosis admissions in 805 hospitals, the regression model including clinical risk adjustors, era effects, and facility characteristics explained approximately 15.3% of the total variation in cirrhosis mortality between hospitals. This figure demonstrates the specific hospital factors that additively accounted for this measured variation. Annual cirrhosis volume, case mix, nurse staffing, liver transplant services, and other facility characteristics accounted for this variation, but it is notable that the majority of variation between hospitals remains unexplained.