Who does it first? The uptake of medical innovations in the performance of thrombolysis on ischemic stroke patients in Germany: a study based on hospital quality data

Scholten, Nadine; Pfaff, Holger; Lehmann, Helmar C; Fink, Gereon R; Karbach, Ute

doi:10.1186/s13012-014-0196-7

Implementation Science

Table 2 Linear regression on the thrombolysis rate change between 2008 and 2010 for all neurology departments performing thrombolysis

From: Who does it first? The uptake of medical innovations in the performance of thrombolysis on ischemic stroke patients in Germany: a study based on hospital quality data

Model 1					Model 2
Explanatory variable	B	(95% CI)	Standard error of B	p value	B	(95% CI)	Standard error of B	p value
Constant	0.069	(−0.065 to 0.203)	0.068	0.312	0.0715	(−0.044 to 0.187)	0.058	0.225
Ownership (ref. public)
Private non-profit	0.004	(−0.018 to 0.025)	0.011	0.740	0.0018	(−0.017 to 0.020)	0.009	0.851
Private	0.000	(−0.024 to 0.024)	0.012	0.981	−0.0070	(−0.027 to 0.013)	0.010	0.500
Location (ref. urban)
Semi-urban	0.004	(−0.019 to 0.027)	0.011	0.731	0.0040	(−0.016 to 0.024)	0.010	0.683
Rural	−0.002	(−0.035 to 0.031)	0.017	0.907	−0.0024	(−0.031 to 0.026)	0.015	0.872
Teaching status (ref. university hospital)
Teaching hospital	0.009	(−0.026 to 0.043)	0.017	0.614	−0.0102	(−0.040 to 0.020)	0.015	0.504
Non-teaching hospital	0.002	(−0.041 to 0.044)	0.021	0.938	−0.0210	(−0.055 to 0.011)	0.017	0.259
Stroke unit (ref. no stroke unit)
Stroke unit only in 2010	−0.046	(−0.139 to 0.047)	0.047	0.333	−0.0037	(−0.085 to 0.078)	0.041	0.929
Stroke unit only in 2008	−0.045	(−0.172 to 0.082)	0.064	0.486	−0.0210	(−0.132 to 0.090)	0.056	0.709
Stroke unit in 2008 and 2010	−0.029	(−0.110 to 0.052)	0.041	0.477	−0.0001	(−0.070 to 0.070)	0.036	0.997
Number of beds (ref. <100)
100–199	−0.063	(−0.169 to 0.042)	0.054	0.239	−0.0388	(−0.130 to 0.052)	0.046	0.404
200–499	−0.027	(−0.126 to 0.071)	0.050	0.584	−0.0077	(−0.093 to 0.078)	0.043	0.858
500–999	−0.036	(−0.136 to 0.064)	0.051	0.481	−0.0130	(−0.099 to 0.074)	0.044	0.769
>1,000	−0.037	(−0.140 to 0.067)	0.053	0.487	−0.0109	(−0101 to 0.079)	0.046	0.812
Number of stroke patients in 2008	0.000	(−0.000 to 0.000)	0.000	0.096	0.000	(−0.000 to 0.000)	0.000	0.233
Thrombolysis rate 2008 (ref.: <0.5)
≥0.05 and <0.10					−0.0174	(−0.037 to 0.002)	0.010	0.076
≥0.10 and <0.20					−0.0462	(−0.065 to −0.027)	0.010	0.000
≥0.20					−0.1500	(−0.183 to −0.117)	0.017	0.000
Adj. R2 = −0.02, N = 256					Adj. R2: 0.25, N = 256

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