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Table 2 Distribution of hospitals in the sample

From: Is the maturity of hospitals' quality improvement systems associated with measures of quality and patient safety?

 

Hospitals participating in the MARQuIS Project, SPAIN

Hospitals participating in MARQuIS, but not in IASIST

Hospitals participating in MARQuIS and IASIST

p-value

N Hospitals

113

62

43

 

Hospital type

    

   University

32 (28.3%)

14 (23.0%)

16 (37.2%)

0.184$

   General teaching

59 (52.2%)

33 (54.1%)

22 (51.2%)

 

   General non-teaching

21 (18.6%)

14 (23.0%)

5 (11.6%)

 

Hospital ownership

    

   Public

89 (78.8%)

46 (74.2%)

36 (83.7%)

0.127$

   Private not profit

10 (8.8%)

5 (8.1%)

5 (11.6%)

 

   Private for profit

14 (12.4%)

11 (17.7%)

2 (4.7%)

 

Hospital beds

    

   Mean (median)

445 (333)

440 (323)

506 (338)

0.104*

Maturity Index**

    

Mean (SD)

2.58 (0.69)

2.57 (0.36)

2.61 (0.29)

0.510*

Median

2.61

2.59

2.64

 

Min

1.7

1.7

1.92

 

Max

3.26

3.26

3.18

 
  1. $ Fisher's Exact Test; * U-Mann-Whitney Test, ** MI scale: 0 (highest maturity) to 4 (lowest maturity); n = 105 hospitals