Table 2:

Patient mortality, readmissions, and length of stay, by timepoint and by intervention or comparison hospitals

	Comparison hospitals (n=28)			Intervention hospitals (n=27)
	Baseline	Post-implementation	Total	Baseline	Post-implementation	Total
Patient outcomes
30-day mortality, deaths per cases (%)	952/88916 (1·07%)	1092/97086 (1·12%)	2044/186002 (1·10%)	2290/142986 1·60%)	2419/160167 (1·51%)	4709/303 153 (1·55%)
7-day readmissions, readmissions per cases (%)	3226/115463 (2·79%)	3660/123778 (2·96%)	6886/239241 (2·88)	5208/162910 (3·20%)	5769/178699 (3·23%)	10 977/341609 (3·21%)
Length of stay, mean (SD; cases)	3·66 (3·83; 117809)	3·51 (3·63; 126236)	3·58 (3·73; 244045)	3·45 (3·85; 176396)	3·13 (3·42; 193318)	3·29 (3·63; 369714)
Hospital staffing
Medical-surgical nurse staffing, mean patients per nurse (SD)	6·13 (0·75)	5·96 (0·98)	6·04 (0·86)	4·84 (1·05)	4·37 (0·54)	4·60 (0·80)

Data are n/N (%), unless otherwise specified.