Table 3.
Definition and source of variables used in the analysis
| Variable | Definition | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical process of care | ||
| score | Total clinical process score | The National Sentinel |
| Stroke Audit; RCP | ||
| Organisational variables | ||
| Organisation score | Total organisational score | The National Sentinel |
| Stroke Audit; RCP | ||
| Hospital characteristics | ||
| Teaching hospital | Whether the hospital is a teaching hospital | Self-coded from hospital’s website |
| Foundation trust | Whether the hospital is a foundation trust | Self-coded from Monitor website |
| Human capital | ||
| Non-medical staff | Headcount of non-medical staff as of 30 September | NHS workforce; statistics, (HCHS) |
| Scientific staff | All qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff as of 30 September | NHS workforce; statistics (HCHS) |
| Allied professionals | Qualified allied health professionals as of 30 September | NHS workforce; statistics, (HCHS) |
| Clinical staff | Total number of medical and dental staff as of 30 September | NHS workforce; statistics, (HCHS) |
| Qualified clinical staff | Headcount of professionally qualified clinical staff as of 30 September | NHS workforce statistics (HCHS) |
| Nurses | Headcount of qualified nursing midwifery and health visiting staff as of 30 September | NHS workforce statistics (HCHS) |
| General Medicine Group | Total medical staff at General Medicine Group as of 30 September | NHS workforce statistics (HCHS) |
| Neurology | Total medical staff at Neurology group as of 30 September | NHS workforce; statistics, (HCHS) |
| Neurophysiology | Number of medical staff at clinical neurophysiology group as of 30 September | NHS workforce statistics (HCHS) |
| Neurosurgeons | Number of neurosurgeons as of 30 September | NHS workforce statistics (HCHS) |
| Physical capital | ||
| Beds | Total number of available beds | Hospital Estate and facilities data |
| Operating theatres | Number of operating theatres, quarter ending September | Dept. of Health QMCO |
| Day case theatres | Number of dedicated day case theatres quarter ending September | Dept. of Health QMCO |
| Regional characteristics | ||
| Stroke admissions | Regional emergency stroke admissions standardised by age and gender | HSCIC |
| Stroke mortality | Regional stroke mortality standardised by age and gender | HSCIC |
| All SMR | All age standardised mortality ratio (SMR) | HSCIC |
| Median wage | Regional full-time weekly median wage | ONS; ASHE |
| Inequality | Ratio of 10th and 90th percentile full time weekly wage | ONS; ASHE |
| No qualifications | Regional population with no qualifications (%) | NOMIS |