Table 1 Hospital characteristics
From: What underlies the observed hospital volume-outcome relationship?
Top 10 High-Volume Hospitals | Low-Volume Hospitals (n = 64 hospitals) | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
Hospital volume of activity | 15.80 | 3.08 | 0.000 |
Fraction of the hospital activity represented by oncology | 38.42 | 11.40 | 0.000 |
Bed occupation rate in surgery (%) | 81.40 | 80.90 | 0.983 |
Number of beds in surgery | 373.67 | 115.62 | 0.001 |
Number of surgery rooms | 37 | 11.63 | 0.001 |
Number of Surgeons | 61.27 | 20.88 | 0.001 |
Number of Gynecologists and Obstetricians | 18.16 | 7.10 | 0.005 |
Aggregate score for nosocomial infection prevention | 87.25 | 85.14 | 0.476 |
Type of hospital (%): | |||
Private for profit | 20 | 50 | 0.000 |
Private not for profit | 10 | 6.45 | |
Public | 0 | 38.70 | |
Teaching Hospital | 70 | 4.85 | |
Accreditation (French National Authority for Health) (%): | |||
Accreditation | 37.50 | 38.98 | 0.732 |
Accreditation with recommendations for improvement | 37.50 | 22.03 | |
Accreditation with mandatory improvement | 25 | 33.91 | |
Conditional accreditation due to reservations | 0 | 5.08 | |