Table 2:
Hospital characteristics according to function-related indicator count^
| Count 0 (n=10,493) |
Count 1 (n=5,509) |
Count ≥2 (n=3,127) |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bed Size | ||||
| Small | 4,715 (44.9) | 2,505 (45.5) | 1,371 (43.8) | 0.167 |
| Medium | 3,274 (31.2) | 1,642 (29.8) | 959 (30.7) | |
| Large | 2,504 (23.9) | 1,362 (24.7) | 797 (25.5) | |
| Nursing Volume | ||||
| Lowest Tertile | 3,525 (33.7) | 1,811 (33.0) | 1,000 (32.4) | 0.446 |
| Middle Tertile | 3,440 (32.9) | 1,823 (33.3) | 1,067 (34.6) | |
| Highest Tertile | 3,485 (33.4) | 1,847 (33.7) | 1,018 (33.0) | |
| Hospital Volume | ||||
| 1-4 per year | 3,537 (33.8) | 1,866 (34.0) | 1,029 (33.4) | 0.970 |
| 5-10 per year | 3,638 (34.8) | 1,899 (34.6) | 1,089 (35.3) | |
| >10 per year | 3,278 (31.4) | 1,717 (31.3) | 967 (31.4) | |
| Cancer Center | 1,338 (12.8) | 690 (12.6) | 382 (12.4) | 0.807 |
| Academic Institution | 3,556 (34.0) | 1,885 (34.4) | 1,090 (35.3) | 0.406 |
| Hospital Type | ||||
| Non-profit | 7,997 (76.6) | 4,228 (77.3) | 2,332 (75.7) | 0.233 |
| For-profit | 937 (9.0) | 510 (9.3) | 305 (9.9) | |
| Government | 1,504 (14.4) | 734 (13.4) | 442 (14.4) |
^
Hospital characteristics missing for ≤140 subjects, or 0.7% of the analytic sample.