Hospital choice in Germany from the patient’s perspective: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Study population and participant sample

Discipline	Raw data of study population					Admission for full-time inpatient care in Germany	Weighting factor per discipline	Weighted sample
	Total	Respondents		Non-respondents		in 2012		Respondents
	Total	n	% (row)	n	% (row)	n		n	% (column)
Internal medicine	351	263	74.9	88	25.1	6,731,730	2.8798	758	39.4
Surgery	295	255	86.4	40	13.6	3,892,125	1.7172	438	22.8
Gynaecology	182	164	90.1	18	9.9	836,815	0.5741	94	4.9
Obstetrics	197	173	87.8	24	12.2	783,858	0.5098	88	4.6
Paediatrics	221	197	89.1	24	10.9	899,720	0.5138	101	5.2
Psychiatry	176	102	58.0	74	42.0	819,951	0.9044	92	4.8
Orthopaedics	196	177	90.3	19	9.7	794,376	0.5049	89	4.6
Neurology	227	177	78.0	50	22.0	828,473	0.5266	93	4.8
Urology	196	174	88.8	22	11.2	739,578	0.4782	83	4.3
ENT	117	88	75.2	29	24.8	581,619	0.7436	66	3.4
Geriatrics	210	155	73.8	55	26.2	201,625	0.1464	23	1.2
Total	2368	1925	81.3	443	18.7	17,109,870		1925	100