Skip to main content

Table 2 Hospital administrators’ mean CR knowledge and awareness (±standard deviation), by type of institution where employed

From: How do hospital administrators perceive cardiac rehabilitation in a publicly-funded health care system?

Item

Community hospital (n=128; 65.6%)

Non-community (n=67; 34.4%)

Total N=195

1. My awareness of the location of the closest rehab program to the institution where I am employed

3.88 ±1.24

4.34±0.90

4.03±1.16††

2. My knowledge of what CR entails

3.34±1.20

3.60±1.03

3.42±1.15

3. My awareness of the use of CR by patients in the institution where I am employed

3.01±1.31

3.44±1.18

3.15±1.28†

4. My colleagues’ level of CR awareness

2.94±1.12

3.27±0.87

3.05±1.06†

  1. Note: Items were scored on a scale from 1 ‘poor’ to 5 ‘excellent’.
  2. ††p=.01, †p<.05.