Table 2.
Hospital characteristics by CIHI hospital peer group
| CIHI hospital peer group*27 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teaching Hospitals | Community—Large Hospitals | Community—Medium Hospitals | Community—Small Hospitals | |
| Number of hospitals | 7 | 12 | 13 | 17 |
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Cesarean deliveries from 2007 to 2013, n |
34,539 | 24,142 | 7,450 | 3,927 |
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Any opioid dispensed, %, mean of hospitals’ means |
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| in 2007, mean (SD) | 38 (22) | 35 (22) | 36 (22) | 28 (26) |
| in 2013, mean (SD) | 18 (17) | 22 (21) | 27 (24) | 11 (16) |
| Annual reduction in percent, 2007–2013, mean (SD) of hospitals’ mean reductions | 2.5 (3.0) | 1.7 (3.5) | 1.7 (3.5) | 2.0 (3.3) |
| Annual reduction in odds, 2007–2013, mean odds ratio (95% CI) adjusted for: | ||||
| No covariates | 0.87 (0.86 to 0.88) | 0.86 (0.85 to 0.87) | 0.93 (0.91 to 0.94) | 0.94 (0.91 to 0.96) |
| Length of stay only | 0.87 (0.86 to 0.88) | 0.87 (0.86 to 0.88) | 0.93 (0.91 to 0.94) | 0.92 (0.90 to 0.95) |
| Length of stay and first-order autocorrelation within hospital as a random effect | 0.87 (0.72 to 1.07) | 0.79 (0.67 to 0.94) | 0.83 (0.72 to 0.96) | 0.82 (0.71 to 0.94) |
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Distribution of hospitals by mean annual change, 2007–2013 |
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| 1.5% to 5.0% | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| -1.4% to 1.4% | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| -5.0% to -1.5% | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| Less than -5.0% | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
*Canadian Institute for Health Information. Indicator Library: Peer Group Methodology, November 2019. Available from URL: https://www.cihi.ca/sites/default/files/document/peer-group-methodology_en.pdf (accessed April 2022)
CI = confidence intervals; CIHI = Canadian Institute for Health Information; SD = standard deviation