Percentage | Mean | SD | Min | Max | |
Hospital characteristics | |||||
Number of patients with AMI discharged as survivors per year | 51.67 | 61.39 | 1 | 691 | |
Number of beds: 100–300 | 43.78 | ||||
Number of beds: more than 300 | 45.90 | ||||
Hospitals located in a rural region | 35.48 | ||||
Teaching hospitals | 46.16 | ||||
Physician characteristics | |||||
Number of patients with AMI treated per year | 1.98 | 1.31 | 1 | 15 | |
Number of hospitals linked to physician via shared patients with AMI | 1.42 | 0.67 | 1 | 6 | |
Usual provider is a primary care physician | 90.1 | ||||
Organisational arrangement: solo practice (alternative: group practice) | 50.15 | ||||
Hospital-physician inter-relationships | |||||
Number of shared patients between a given hospital and usual provider | 1.66 | 0.54 | 1 | 4.45 | |
Timely secondary prevention | |||||
Patients with a statin prescription in the 30 days after discharge | 53.91 | 15.53 | 0 | 100 |
AMI, acute myocardial infarction.