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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care Res Rev. 2019 Jan 23;77(4):357–366. doi: 10.1177/1077558718823130

Table 2.

Distribution of System Size, by Number of Hospitals and Physicians.

Health systems (n = 626)
M SD Lowest number 25th percentile Mdn 75th percentile Highest number
Hospitals 6 13.6 1 1 2 5 175
Hospital beds 965 2,207.8 24 247 433 885 34,532
Physicians 742 1,479.5 50 112 245 767 20,300
Primary care physicians 227 502.7 10 41 93 234 8,995

Note. Data come from the 2016 AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems. Hospital and hospital beds reflect general acute care hospitals.