Table 2.
Facility Characteristics Stratified by Physician Specialty
| Description | Total | Physician Specialty | P Value | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electrophysiologist | Interventional Cardiologist | General Cardiologist | Thoracic Surgeon | Other Specialist | |||||||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
| All | 107 966 | 100 | 74 505 | 100 | 6219 | 100 | 20 795 | 100 | 1790 | 100 | 4657 | 100 | |
| Profit type: private/community | 93 330 | 86.4 | 62 816 | 84.3 | 5854 | 94.1 | 19 158 | 92.1 | 1526 | 85.3 | 3976 | 85.4 | <0.001 |
| Census region: rural | 13 032 | 12.1 | 7017 | 9.4 | 1596 | 25.7 | 3484 | 16.8 | 354 | 19.8 | 581 | 12.5 | <0.001 |
| Patient beds >450 | 52 086 | 48.2 | 39 892 | 53.5 | 1451 | 23.3 | 8201 | 39.4 | 551 | 30.8 | 1991 | 42.8 | <0.001 |
| Teaching hospital | 59 725 | 55.3 | 44 443 | 59.7 | 2110 | 33.9 | 9976 | 48.0 | 742 | 41.5 | 2454 | 52.7 | <0.001 |
| Annual ICD volume >220 | 50 361 | 46.6 | 38 417 | 51.6 | 886 | 14.2 | 8477 | 40.8 | 525 | 29.3 | 2056 | 44.1 | <0.001 |
ICD indicates implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.