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Table 3 Hospital characteristics of hospitals with low and high adjusted rates of inguinal hernia repair

From: Variation in practice and outcomes after inguinal hernia repair: a nationwide observational study

Hospital characteristics

Hospital

p-value

Lowa

Highb

Surgical teaching hospitalc—yes/no

3/1

1/2

 

Another hospital, same city—yes/no

0/4

0/3

 

Characteristics per hospital

   

 Annual revenue—mean (millions, €)

230

167

0.301

 Newly registered medical conditions, mean

266,193

178,311

0.302

  Fixed price, %

22.9

6.25

< 0.001

  Not fixed/free price, %

77.1

93.7

 

 Operation rooms, mean

14

9

0.172

 Bed capacity, mean

514

412

0.421

 Staff, mean

2694

2326

0.582

 Medical specialist, mean

196

151

0.258

  Salaried, %

33.1

24.5

0.079

  Self-employed, %

66.9

75.4

 

 Surgeons, mean

12

10

0.404

  1. aA general hospital was defined as “hospital with a low adjusted inguinal hernia repair rate” when a hospital appeared in the lowest 20th percentile of the distribution of the adjusted number of surgeries per 1000 patients in all three subsequent years (2013, 2014 and 2015)
  2. bA general hospital was defined as “hospital with a high adjusted inguinal hernia repair rate” when a hospital appeared in the highest 20th percentile of the distribution of the adjusted number of surgeries per 1000 patients in all three subsequent years (2013, 2014 and 2015)
  3. cInvolvement of surgical trainees in surgery