Table 4 |
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Patients' overall assessment of the quality of care for accredited and non-accredited hospitals*, data from 25 hospital, STD = standard deviation |
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accredited |
non-accredited |
P |
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n |
Mean (STD) |
n |
Mean (STD) |
Value |
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Cooperation physicians and nursing staff |
1775 |
3.31 (0.81)1 |
1159 |
3.31 (0.80)1 |
0.629u |
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Perceived quality of care |
1792 |
3.41 (0.84)1 |
1175 |
3.39 (0.83)1 |
0.355u |
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Judgment of length of stay |
1774 |
3.00 (0.57)2 |
1157 |
2.98 (0.59)2 |
0.623u |
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Recommendation rate*: |
0.887c |
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Definitively yes |
1171 (65.6%) |
776 (65.8%) |
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All other resonses |
615 (34.4%) |
403 (34.2%) |
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uMann Whitney U test cChi Square test (Pearson) *Note. Cell includes cell size and column percentages 1Scale from 1 to 5: 1 = poor to 5 = excellent 2Scale from 1 to 5: 1 = much shorter than necessary to 5 = much longer than necessary |
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Sack et al. BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:120 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-10-120 |
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