Payments and quality of care in private for-profit and public hospitals in Greece

Table 2 Nurse staffing levels by hospital ownership type

	2001				2002				2003
	PUBLIC	PFP			PUBLIC	PFP			PUBLIC	PFP
			RATIO PUBLIC/PFP	95% CI			RATIO PUBLIC/PFP	95% CI			RATIO PUBLIC/PFP	95% CI
Nurses per hospital bed, by hospital specialty
General	1.08	0.63	1.71	1.66, 1.76	1.15	0.71	1.63	1.59, 1.68	1.16	0.74	1.57	1.52, 1.61
Mixed	-	0.48	-	-	-	0.55	-	-	-	0.59	-	-
Maternity	0.84	0.53	1.57	1.36, 1.80	0.95	0.58	1.63	1.42, 1.87	0.92	0.61	1.51	1.32, 1.73
Psychiatric	0.49	0.24	2.02	1.88, 2.17	0.51	0.26	1.97	1.84, 2.11	0.59	0.26	2.28	2.13, 2.44
Pediatric	0.96	0.46	2.11	1.37, 3.42	0.98	0.73	1.34	1.03, 1.79	0.98	0.73	1.35	1.03, 1.80
Other specialty*	0.95	0.33	2.90	2.54, 3.33	0.86	0.31	2.76	2.40, 3.18	0.88	0.33	2.67	2.30, 3.05
Total	0.97	0.48	2.01	1.96, 2.07	1.03	0.53	1.93	1.89, 1.98	1.06	0.55	1.93	1.88, 1.97
Nurses per hospital bed, by nurse training level
RNs†	0.39	0.19	2.07	1.99, 2.16	0.42	0.23	1.86	1.79, 1.93	0.44	0.22	2.00	1.92, 2.07
LPNs††	0.39	0.17	2.28	2.19, 2.38	0.45	0.22	2.04	1.96, 2.12	0.44	0.24	1.88	1.81, 1.95
Aides‡	0.19	0.12	1.55	1.47, 1.63	0.16	0.08	1.87	1.76, 1.99	0.18	0.09	1.89	1.78, 2.01
Total	0.97	0.48	2.01	1.96, 2.07	1.03	0.53	1.93	1.89, 1.98	1.06	0.55	1.93	1.88, 1.97
			DIFFERENCE PUBLIC - PFP	95% CI			DIFFERENCE PUBLIC - PFP	95% CI			DIFFERENCE PUBLIC - PFP	95% CI
Nurses by training level, % total nursing staff
RNs†	40.3	39.1	1.1	-0.1, 2.3	41.1	42.8	-1.6	-2.9, -0.4	41.5	40.1	1.4	0.2, 2.6
LPNs††	40.2	35.5	4.8	3.5, 6.0	43.5	41.3	2.2	1.0, 3.4	41.9	43.0	-1.1	-2.3, 0.1
Aides‡	19.5	25.4	-5.9	-7.0, -4.8	15.3	15.9	-0.5	-1.5, 0.3	16.6	16.9	-0.3	-1.2, 0.6
Total	100.0	100.0			100.0	100.0			100.0	100.0

PFP: Private for-profit *Other specialty: Includes surgery clinics, eye clinics, oncology hospitals, dermatological hospitals, and infectious disease hospitals.
†RNs: registered nurses (3 or 4 years training) ††LPNs: licensed nurses (2 years training) ‡Aides: nonprofessional staff.

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