Table 6.

Variation in inpatient mortality, length of hospital stay and cost by gender, hospital academic status and admission urgency

	Gender			Hospital academic status			Admission urgency
	Male	Female	P-value	Rural or urban nonteaching	Urban teaching	P-value	Nonelective	Elective	P-value
Mortality (%)	1.90	1.71	0.13	1.80	1.83	0.67	2.01	0.99	<0.01
Length of stay (days)	10.5	10.9	<0.01	10.2	10.9	<0.01	11.7	6.3	<0.01
Cost (US$)	22 639	23 224	<0.01	21 173	24 135	<0.01	24 780	15 168	<0.01