Table 2

Network characteristics and measures

PercentageMeanSDMinMax
Hospital characteristics
 Number of patients with AMI discharged as survivors per year51.6761.391691
 Number of beds: 100–30043.78
 Number of beds: more than 30045.90
 Hospitals located in a rural region35.48
 Teaching hospitals46.16
Physician characteristics
 Number of patients with AMI treated per year1.981.31115
 Number of hospitals linked to physician via shared patients with AMI1.420.6716
 Usual provider is a primary care physician90.1
 Organisational arrangement: solo practice (alternative: group practice)50.15
Hospital-physician inter-relationships
 Number of shared patients between a given hospital and usual provider1.660.5414.45
Timely secondary prevention
 Patients with a statin prescription in the 30 days after discharge53.9115.530100
  • AMI, acute myocardial infarction.