Table 1.

Hospital Characteristics: Rural Subtypes and Urban

	Overall n=642†	Urban n=566¶	Large n=49§	Small n=18‡	Isolated n=9††	P¶¶
Hospital Characteristics
State (%)§§						.00**
California	46	49	23	44	44
Florida	27	29	20	0	11
Pennsylvania	26	22	57	56	44
Ownership Type (%)§§
Government, non-Federal	11	11	4	11	33	.01*
Not-for-Profit	66	64	78	89	56
For- Profit	23	25	18	0	11
Bed Size (%)§§						.00**
<100	18	12	41	100	67
101–250	46	46	55	0	33
>250	37	41	4	0	0
High Technology (%)§§	42	48	6	0	0	.00**
Teaching (%)§§						.00**
Non-Teaching	54	48	82	94	100
Minor Teaching	38	43	13	6	0
Major Teaching	9	10	5	0	0
Patients Per Unit, (mean)	18	19	16	12	15	.00**

Notes.

^†Number of overall hospitals vary from 373 –642 due to missing data

^¶Number of urban hospitals vary from 317–566 due to missing data

^§Number of large hospitals vary from 34–49 due to missing data

^‡Number of small hospitals vary from 14–18 due to missing data

^††Number of isolated hospitals vary from 8–9 due to missing data.

^¶¶Statistical significance was determined with Chi Square tests for categorical variables and ANOVA was used to determine significance of the difference between patients-per-unit in hospital categories

^§§Percentages might not add to 100 due to rounding

^*p<0.05

^**p<0.01