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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: World Neurosurg. 2019 Jul 5;130:e753–e759. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.06.214

Table 2.

Hospital Demographics

Variable All Readmissions Index Nonindex p-value
Control/ownership of hospital
 Government, nonfederal 418 (21.1%) 342 (20.1%) 76 (21.4%) 0.002*
 Private, not-profit 1419 (71.5%) 1182 (72.5%) 237 (66.7%)
 Private, investor-owned 148 (7.5%) 106 (6.5%) 42 (11.8%)
Teaching status
 Teaching 1732 (87.3%) 1429 (87.7%) 303 (85.4%) 0.236
 Non-teaching 253 (12.7%) 201 (12.3%) 52 (14.7%)
Hospital bedsize
 Small 71 (3.6%) 55 (3.4%) 16 (4.5%) 0.006*
 Medium 238 (12.0%) 179 (11.0%) 59 (16.6%)
 Large 1676 (84.4%) 1396 (85.6%) 280 (78.9%)
Hospital urban-rural designation
 Large metropolitan area > 1 million residents 1345 (67.8%) 1102 (67.6%) 243 (68.5%) 0.758
 Small metropolitan area < 1 million residents, or micropolitan 640 (32.2%) 528 (32.4%) 112 (31.6%)