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Table 4 Patients' overall assessment of the quality of care for accredited and non-accredited hospitals*, data from 25 hospital, STD = standard deviation

From: Challenging the holy grail of hospital accreditation: A cross sectional study of inpatient satisfaction in the field of cardiology

 

accredited

non-accredited

P

 

n

Mean (STD)

n

Mean (STD)

Value

Cooperation physicians and nursing staff

1775

3.31 (0.81)1

1159

3.31 (0.80)1

0.629u

Perceived quality of care

1792

3.41 (0.84)1

1175

3.39 (0.83)1

0.355u

Judgment of length of stay

1774

3.00 (0.57)2

1157

2.98 (0.59)2

0.623u

Recommendation rate*:

    

0.887c

   Definitively yes

1171 (65.6%)

776 (65.8%)

 

   All other resonses

615 (34.4%)

403 (34.2%)

 
  1. uMann Whitney U test
  2. cChi Square test (Pearson)
  3. *Note. Cell includes cell size and column percentages
  4. 1Scale from 1 to 5: 1 = poor to 5 = excellent
  5. 2Scale from 1 to 5: 1 = much shorter than necessary to 5 = much longer than necessary
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