Table 1 Features of participating hospitals by region
From: Management of acute diarrhea in adults in China: a cross-sectional survey
Items | Beijing | Shaanxi | P |
|---|---|---|---|
Type of hospital* | |||
Teaching (Tier 3A) | 9 (90%) | 3 (30%) | 0.0024 |
Teaching (Tier 3B) | 1 (10%) | 1 (10%) | NS |
Non-teaching (Tier 3A) | 0 (0%) | 5 (50%) | 0.039 |
Non-teaching (Tier 3B) | 0 (0%) | 1 (10%) | 1.0 |
Location‡ | |||
Capital of China or province | 10 (100%) | 7 (70%) | 0.2105 |
Non-capital | 0 (0%) | 3 (30%) | |
Physicians status | |||
Resident | 12 (37.5) | 20 (37.0) | 0.966 |
Attending physician | 15 (46.9) | 15 (27.8) | 0.072 |
Associated chief physician | 3 (9.4) | 10 (18.5) | 0.253 |
Chief physician | 2 (6.3) | 9 (16.7) | 0.162 |
Number of bed (means ±SD) | 1151 ± 381 | 816 ± 451 | 0.0894 |
Total diarrhea patients/site (means ±SD) | 2719 ± 1460 | 1241 ± 661 | 0.0124 |
Enroll Number/site | 40 | 40 | NS |
Enroll rate § (%)(means ±SD) | 2.2 ± 2.2 | 5.0 ± 4.3 | 0.0878 |
Response rate of questionnaire | 100% | 100% | NS |