Table 1B.
Hospital Characteristics Stratified by Electronic Health Record Completeness and Percentage (high/low) of Hospitalists
| Incomplete EHR | Complete EHR | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent of Patients Cared for by a Hospitalist |
Percent of Patients Cared for by a Hospitalist |
|||||
| Hospital Characteristics (n = 2985) | ≤50% (n = 1587) |
>50% (n = 891) |
≤50% (n = 285) |
>50% (n = 222) |
P | |
| Geographic region, % | New England | 2.5% | 6.3% | 3.2% | 12.6% | <.001 |
| Mid-Atlantic | 12.6% | 8.9% | 19.6% | 12.2% | ||
| East north central | 16.8% | 10.8% | 24.6% | 10.8% | ||
| West north central | 6.8% | 6.6% | 14.7% | 9.9% | ||
| South Atlantic | 17.5% | 22.8% | 11.9% | 18.9% | ||
| East south central | 12.1% | 7.9% | 9.5% | 3.6% | ||
| West south central | 15.8% | 14.5% | 8.1% | 8.6% | ||
| Mountain | 4.8% | 9.8% | 2.8% | 8.1% | ||
| Pacific | 11.1% | 12.6% | 5.6% | 15.3% | ||
| Population of metropolitan area, % | <100,000 | 35.1% | 41.9% | 48.8% | 52.7% | <.001 |
| 100,000–249,999 | 16.6% | 23.1% | 16.8% | 25.2% | ||
| 250,000–999,999 | 10.9% | 9.1% | 11.6% | 9.9% | ||
| ≥1,000,000 | 37.4% | 25.8% | 22.8% | 12.2% | ||
| Medical school affiliation, % | None | 73.4% | 68.5% | 58.3% | 45.5% | <.001 |
| Minor | 17.5% | 18.9% | 17.9% | 25.2% | ||
| Major | 9.1% | 12.6% | 23.8% | 29.3% | ||
| Number of beds in hospitals, % | <200 | 59.2% | 52.2% | 44.6% | 35.1% | <.001 |
| 200–349 | 22.1% | 22.5% | 23.2% | 22.5% | ||
| 350–499 | 11.2% | 12.5% | 15.1% | 13.9% | ||
| ≥500 | 7.6% | 12.9% | 17.2% | 28.4% | ||
| Mean (SD) | 211.7(166.7) | 252(205.1) | 279.3 (215.6) | 352.7 (273.7) | ||
| Median (25th, 75th percentiles) | 166(88,296) | 186(100,343) | 229 (106,378) | 276 (142,523) | ||
| Type of hospital, % | Nonprofit | 60.7% | 64.5% | 76.5% | 77.9% | <.001 |
| For-profit | 18.2% | 19.6% | 8.4% | 5.9% | ||
| Public | 21.2% | 15.8% | 15.1% | 16.2% | ||
EHR indicates electronic health record.
Patients admitted with respiratory disease in 2009, from a 5% national Medicare sample. They included 20,862 cared for by hospitalists and 28,714 cared for by nonhospitalists in 2985 general and surgical hospitals.