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Table 3 Characteristics of hospitals, by hospital language

From: The impact of hospital language on the rate of in-hospital harm. A retrospective cohort study of home care recipients in Ontario, Canada

Characteristic of Hospital

Language of Hospital

P value*

English-speaking (N = 147)

Bilingual (N = 12)

Academic Institution – no. (%)

 Yes

19 (12.9%)

3 (25.0%)

0.244

 No

128 (87.1%)

9 (75.0%)

 

Emergency Department – no. (%)

 Yes

140 (95.2%)

12 (100%)

0.439

 No

7 (4.8%)

0 (0%)

 

Urban/Rural Hospital – no. (%

 Urban

74 (50.3%)

4 (33.3%)

0.257

 Rural

73 (49.7%)

8 (66.7%)

 

Total Number of Beds – mean +/− s.d.

121.85 ± 129.42

47.44 ± 48.57

0.089

 Number of ICU beds – mean +/− s.d.

11.20 ± 15.76

2.44 ± 3.32

0.100

 Number of medical beds – mean +/− s.d.

51.65 ± 65.69

17.56 ± 26.42

0.124

 Number of obstetric beds – mean +/− s.d.

9.78 ± 13.47

6.11 ± 9.24

0.424

 Number of pediatric beds – mean +/− s.d.

4.21 ± 7.24

1.33 ± 1.80

0.238

 Number of surgical beds – mean +/− s.d.

28.70 ± 42.42

9.67 ± 16.29

0.184

  1. Note: ICU Intensive Care Unit
  2. * Characteristics were compared using t-tests for continuous variables and chi-squared tests for categorical variables