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Table 1 Characteristics of responding nursing homes

From: Needs and availability of medical specialists’ and allied health professionals’ visits in German nursing homes: a cross-sectional study of nursing home staff

Characteristic

Proportion

Type of sponsorship (n = 469)a

 private

39.2%

 non-profit

52.7%

 local

8.1%

Number of beds (n = 478)a mean (SD) [IQR]

89.1 (47.5) [60–108]

  ≤ 50

18.6%

 51–100

51.0%

 101–150

23.4%

 151–200

5.0%

  > 200

1.9%

Location of the nursing home (n = 461)a

 Rural ≤20,000

51.6%

 Semiurban > 20,000- ≤100,000

28.4%

 Urban > 100,000

20%

Distance to nearest hospital with emergency department (n = 419)ain kilometres, mean (SD) [IQR]

8.5 (7.8) [3–12]

  < 1

4.8%

 1–5

45.6%

 6–10

21.2%

 11–15

14.3%

 16–20

7.6%

 21–25

3.1%

  > 25

3.3%

Area (n = 465)

 North Germany 1

22.4%

 East Germany 2

15.1%

 West Germany3

35.9%

 South Germany4

26.7%

  1. aNumbers differ because of missing values
  2. SD standard deviation, IQR interquartile range.
  3. 1Includes Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  4. 2Includes Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia
  5. 3Includes North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland Palatinate, Saarland, Hesse
  6. 4Includes Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg