Table 1 Differences in hospital contract-based nurse utilization rates
Hospital proportion of contract-based RNs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hospital characteristic | N (%) | Mean | SD | P value |
Province/municipality/autonomous region | < 0.01 | |||
Beijing | 20 (11.1) | 0.40 | 0.19 | |
Liaoning | 20 (11.1) | 0.42 | 0.20 | |
Hebei | 20 (11.1) | 0.45 | 0.12 | |
Guangdong | 21 (11.6) | 0.53 | 0.19 | |
Xinjiang | 20 (11.1) | 0.53 | 0.16 | |
Hunan | 20 (11.1) | 0.55 | 0.18 | |
Sichuan | 20 (11.1) | 0.56 | 0.20 | |
Shaanxi | 20 (11.1) | 0.57 | 0.24 | |
Shanghai | 20 (11.1) | 0.57 | 0.16 | |
Hospital level | 0.28 | |||
Level 3 | 91 (50.3) | 0.53 | 0.20 | |
Level 2 | 90 (49.7) | 0.49 | 0.18 | |
Hospital status | 0.03 | |||
Provincial hospital | 40 (22.4) | 0.49 | 0.17 | |
Municipal hospital | 82 (45.8) | 0.48 | 0.17 | |
University hospital | 57 (31.8) | 0.56 | 0.22 | |
Location | 0.22 | |||
Municipality | 40 (22.1) | 0.48 | 0.19 | |
Capital city | 72 (39.8) | 0.54 | 0.21 | |
Non-capital city | 69 (38.1) | 0.49 | 0.17 | |