Quality improvement practices used by teaching versus non-teaching trauma centres: analysis of a multinational survey of adult trauma centres in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

Table 4 Quality improvement practices according to teaching status ^*

Characteristic	Teaching (%)	Non-teaching (%)	Chi-square
Characteristic	(N = 175)	(N = 74)	P-value
Quality improvement practices	(N = 174)^*	(N = 74)^*
Morbidity & mortality conferences	167 (96)	72 (97)	0.61
Quality of care audits	164 (94)	65 (88)	0.08
Report cards	90 (51)	32 (43)	0.22
Internal benchmarking	137 (79)	57 (77)
External benchmarking	133 (76)	51 (69)	0.22
Research	(N = 173)^*	(N = 73)^*
Local investigator initiated	28 (16)	10 (14)	0.62
Multi-centre investigator initiated	66 (38)	9 (12)	<0.001
Industry sponsored	61 (35)	8 (11)	<0.001
Do not participate	18 (10)	46 (63)	<0.001

^*Complete information was not available for all centres and the number of survey responses is presented for each characteristic.

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