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Table 3 Prevalence of hospitals’ efforts relating to meeting patient-information needs

From: Meeting patients’ health information needs in breast cancer center hospitals - a multilevel analysis

 

Patient-specific information material

Access to self-help groups provided

Health fairs for patients/families

 

Yes

No

X 2

Yes

No

X 2

Yes

No

X 2

All hospitals

40 (36%)

71 (64%)

 

105 (97%)

3 (3%)

 

90 (81%)

21 (19%)

 

Ownership status

         

  Public

15 (27%)

41 (73%)

4.21

56 (100%)

0 (0%)

4.41

49 (88%)

7 (12%)

4.28

  Charitable

13 (45%)

16 (55%)

 

27 (96%)

1 (4%)

 

20 (69%)

9 (31%)

 

  For-profit

12 (46%)

14 (54%)

 

22 (92%)

2 (8%)

 

21 (81%)

5 (19%)

 

Patient volume

         

  ≤ 100

5 (38%)

8 (62%)

8.39

13 (100%)

0 (0%)

2.54

10 (77%)

3 (23%)

3.46

  101 to 200

13 (25%)

38 (75%)

 

49 (98%)

1 (2%)

 

41 (80%)

10 (20%)

 

  201 to 300

12 (39%)

19 (61%)

 

28 (93%)

2 (7%)

 

26 (84%)

5 (16%)

 

  301 to 400

6 (75%)

2 (25%)

 

8 (100%)

0 (0%)

 

5 (63%)

3 (38%)

 

  > 400

3 (50%)

3 (50%)

 

6 (100%)

0 (0%)

 

6 100%)

0 (0%)

 

Teaching hospital

         

  Yes

38 (40%)

57 (60%)

4.49*

90 (98%)

2 (2%)

.84

76 (80%)

19 (20%)

.50

  No

2 (13%)

14 (88%)

 

15 (94%)

1 (6%)

 

14 (88%)

2 (13%)

 
  1. N; percentages; note: We used pair-wise deletion in the chi-square analysis. Two hospitals had no information on patient volume and three had no information on access to self-help groups. Pearson’s chi-square and Fisher’s exact test yielded the same results for statistical significance; *< .05.