Table 7 The relationship between hospital performance and characteristics of hospitals from 2002 to 2008*
From: Development and impact of the Iranian hospital performance measurement program
A) The relationship between hospital performance and ownership of hospitals | |||||||||
Hospital type | Time period | The average increase/decrease in performance per year by ownership of hospitals (relevant p-values) | Total performance increase (p-value) | Â | |||||
| Â | Â | Government | SSO | Private | Army | Charity | Other | Â | Â |
General | 2002-2005 | 24 (0.890) | 197 (0.325) | 92 (0.621) | 97 (0.647) | 52 (0.835) | 265 (0.384) | 317 (0.776) | Â |
| Â | 2006-2008 | -243 (0.126) | -331 (0.075) | -345 (0.047) | -249 (0.214) | 81 (0.718) | 453 (0.557) | 209 (0.118) | Â |
Specialized | 2002-2008 | -88 (0.038) | -55 (0.382) | -63 (0.220) | -81 (0.175) | 24 (0.729) | 126 (0.495) | 46 (0.135) | Â |
B) The relationship between hospital performance and teaching status of hospitals | |||||||||
Hospital type | Time period | The average performance increase/decrease per year by teaching status of hospitals and relevant p-values | Total performance increase (p-value) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | |
| Â | Â | Teaching | Non-teaching | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
General | 2002-2005 | -118 (0.113) | 347 (0.877) | 317 (0.113) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
| Â | 2006-2008 | -141 (0.044) | 228 (0.929) | 209 (0.044) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Specialized | 2002-2008 | -15 (0.307) | 53 (0.707) | 46 (0.307) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
C) The relationship between hospital performance and size of hospitals | |||||||||
Hospital type | Time period | The average performance increase/decrease per year by size (bed number) category of hospitals and relevant p-values | Total performance increase (p-value) | Â | |||||
|  |  | ≤100 | 101-200 | 201-300 | 301-400 | 401-500 | >500 |  |  |
General | 2002-2005 | 96 (0.703) | -4 (0.987) | 133 (0.629) | -118 (0.710) | -142 (0.700) | 265 (0.328) | 317 (0.608) | Â |
| Â | 2006-2008 | 114 (0.597) | 49 (0.824) | 124 (0.599) | 191 (0.482) | 15 (0.962) | 103 (0.521) | 209 (0.872) | Â |
Specialized | 2002-2008 | -19 (0.699) | -21 (0.663) | -40 (0.495) | -1 (0.991) | -5 (0.945) | 66 (0.042) | 46 (0.986) | Â |
D) The relationship between hospital performance and national medical universities ranking (which is affiliate the hospital) | |||||||||
Hospital type | Time period | Total number of hospital (n) | The average performance increase/decrease per year by medical university rank and relevant p-values | Total performance increase (p-value) | |||||
| Â | Â | Â | Grade 1 | n | Grade 2 | n | Grade 3 | n | Â |
General | 2002-2005 | 2214 | -78 (0.512) | 1127 | -22 (0.858) | 890 | 366 (0.912) | 193 | 317 (0.650) |
| Â | 2006-2008 | 1666 | -78 (0.491) | 858 | -216 (0.063) | 658 | 331 (0.938) | 150 | 209 (0.053) |
Specialized | 2002-2008 | 1000 | 49 (0.053) | 577 | 4 (0.885) | 331 | 16 (0.263) | 92 | 46 (0.009) |