Table 5.
Staffing, workload, and financial compensation for health care ethics programs (HCEPs)
| Hospital category | Mean number | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individuals who performed HCEP work in the last year (paid and unpaid) N = 269 | Workload (Person-hours/week) of individuals who performed HCEP work N = 251 | Individuals who received financial compensation specifically for HCEP work N = 228§ | Estimated FTEs (full-time equivalents) provided for HCEP work N = 188§ | |
| Bed size | ||||
| 1–99 (ref. category) | 6.6 | 5.6 | 0.1 | 0 |
| 100–199 | 10.0 | 19.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| 200–299 | 15.2**** | 50.8 | 1.1 | 0.1 |
| 300–399 | 18.9**** | 39.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| 400–499 | 15.5 | 76.3 | 1.3 | 0.7 |
| 500 + | 20.8**** | 104.0**** | 2.1*** | 1.0**** |
| Academic affiliation | ||||
| Major teaching | 19.3**** | 109.6**** | 2.1** | 1.0**** |
| Minor teaching | 13.9**** | 29.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| Non-teaching (ref. category) | 7.9 | 17.3 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Location | ||||
| Urban | 17.1**** | 41.8** | 0.9** | 0.2* |
| Rural (ref. category) | 9.4 | 6.6 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Total | 11.0 | 29.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
*p < .05
**p < .01
***p < .001
****p < .0001
§Analysis performed after implausible answers were removed