Does type of hospital ownership influence physicians' daily work schedules? An observational real-time study in German hospital departments

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of hospital department characteristics: comparison between hospital ownership types

Variable	Private, for-profit hospital department		Public hospital department		Private. non-profit hospital department		chi²
	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.
Number of patient beds	16.33	1.75	16.66	3.26	17.00	3.00	0.188
Number of doctors	14.17	3.19	15.83	2.78	15.67	3.05	1.061
Number of nurses	35.67	9.43	35.83	8.89	30.33	4.72	1.185

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