Table 1.
Characteristics of general hospitals and freestanding children’s hospitals
| General hospitals (n=3758) | Children’s hospitals (n=50) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital characteristics: | n | (%) | n | (%) | p-value |
| Geographic region: | |||||
| Northeast | 458 | 12.2 | 4 | 8.0 | 0.50 |
| Midwest | 1209 | 32.2 | 15 | 30.0 | |
| South | 1335 | 35.6 | 17 | 34.0 | |
| West | 753 | 20.1 | 14 | 28.0 | |
| Location & teaching status: | |||||
| Rural | 1524 | 40.6 | 0 | 0 | <0.0001 |
| Urban non-teaching | 1506 | 40.1 | 7 | 14.0 | |
| Urban teaching | 725 | 19.3 | 43 | 86.0 | |
| Hospital ownership: | |||||
| Government, nonfederal | 741 | 19.7 | 0 | 0 | <0.0001 |
| Private, non-profit | 2364 | 63.0 | 48 | 96.0 | |
| Private, investor-own | 650 | 17.3 | 2 | 4.0 | |
| Volume of pediatric hospitalizations (deciles) | |||||
| <185 hospitalizations/year (<8th decile) | 2664 | 71.0 | 0 | 0 | <0.0001 |
| 186–375 hospitalizations/year (8th decile) | 378 | 10.1 | 2 | 4.0 | |
| 376–996 hospitalizations/year (9th decile) | 380 | 10.1 | 1 | 2.0 | |
| >986 hospitalizations/year (10th decile) | 333 | 8.9 | 47 | 94.0 | |
| Volume of pediatric hospitalizations, median [IQR] | 56 | [14–240] | 12001 | [5838–15448] | <0.0001 |