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Table 3 Spearman’s correlation for PLHAMA and mortality rates

From: Patient satisfaction, patients leaving hospital against medical advice and mortality in Italian university hospitals: a cross-sectional analysis

Clinical specialties

Number of wards

Spearman’s ρ

All departments

405

0.421**

Surgical specialties

229

0.2691**

Medical specialties

176

0.1189

Surgical specialties

Cardiac surgery

21

0.2776

Neurosurgery

24

0.4815*

Urology

32

0.1207

Orthopaedics-traumatology

51

0.4778**

General surgery

101

0.3804**

Medical specialties

Cardiology

37

0.2883

Neurology

33

0.0424

Internal medicine

106

−0.156

  1. **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05
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