Benchmarking Strategies for Measuring the Quality of Healthcare: Problems and Prospects

Table 2

ICC and significant hospital characteristics.

	Y1	Y2	Y3d
	ClinSAT	GenSAT	WaitDISSAT
ICC	13.0%^§	14.8%^§	12.2%
Residual ICC	2.7%^§	9.5%^§	1.2%^#
Hospital Characteristics	Model coefficients and significance
Private Hosp	n.s	2.068**	0.0420***
University Hosp	1.729**	n.s	n.s.
% Beds	−0.020*	−0.056**	n.s.
N_ Specialties	−0.079***	−0.281***	−0.0040***
N_OpRoom	0.072***	−0.102*	n.s.
% High medical casemix	3.515*	n.s	n.s.
Hours_OpRoom	n.s	0.001***	n.s.
Ave_MH_OpRoom	n.s	−0.058***	−0.0004*

^§corrected for measurement error, ^#rescaled with scale correction factor.
*** P-value<0.01, **𝑃-value<0.05, *𝑃-value<0.10, n.s. = not significant.