Table 1. Levels of care and numbers of patients.
| Level of care | Hospitals. n* (%) |
Number of patients treated. n (%) | ||||
| Laparoscopic cholecystectomy |
Herniotomy | Hip joint replacement |
Knee joint replacement |
Total | ||
| Standard care | 54 (43.2) |
3344 (55.0) |
1126 (50.6) |
2672 (46.6) |
2431 (48.4) |
9573 (50.2) |
| Specialized center | 38 (30.4) |
1906 (31.4) |
708 (31.8) |
1897 (33.1) |
1624 (32.3) |
6135 (32.2) |
| University hospital (UH) | 7 (5.6) |
206 (3.4) |
36 (1.6) |
118 (2.1) |
87 (1.7) |
447 (2.3) |
| Maximum care other than UH | 21 (16.8) |
622 (10.2) |
357 (16.0) |
356 (6.2) |
449 (8.9) |
1784 (9.4) |
| Other | 5 (4.0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
685 (12.0) |
430 (8.6) |
1115 (5.9) |
*For 13 hospitals there were no data on level of care