Hospital characteristics and associations between star rating summary scores and in-hospital COVID-19 RSMRs (values represent Pearson correlation coefficients between star rating summary and group scores and in-hospital COVID-19 RSMRs).
| Correlation coefficient (no of hospitals) All p values <0.05 unless noted with a* | ||||||
| Hospital characteristic | Hospital summary score | Mortality group score | Readmission group score | Safety of care group score | Patient experience group score | Timely and effective care group score |
| All hospitals | −0.41 (4256) | −0.15 (3934) | −0.24 (4182) | −0.13 (3193) | −0.39 (3198) | −0.30 (4202) |
| Rural | −0.32 (1738) | −0.31 (1568) | −0.17 (1685) | −0.002* (1067) | −0.244 (955) | −0.13 (1711) |
| Urban | −0.42 (2517) | −0.15 (2366) | −0.23 (2497) | −0.16 (2334) | −0.39 (2243) | −0.31 (2490) |
| Beds: 1–99 | −0.23 (2028) | −0.16 (1758) | −0.13 (1958) | 0.03* (1205) | −0.30 (1041) | −0.16 (1987) |
| Beds: 100–199 | −0.37 (786) | −0.17 (757) | −0.19 (783) | −0.12* (767) | −0.28 (742) | −0.27 (777) |
| Beds: 200–299 | −0.39 (498) | −0.21 (485) | −0.21 (498) | −0.07* (492) | −0.34 (485) | −0.23 (498) |
| Beds: 300–399 | −0.38 (364) | −0.11 (357) | −0.20 (364) | −0.28 (360) | −0.31 (358) | −0.23 (362) |
| Beds: 400+ | −0.42 (579) | −0.16 (577) | −0.24 (579) | −0.17 (577) | −0.41 (572) | −0.30 (577) |
| Teaching hospitals | −0.47 (1166) | −0.17 (1124) | −0.29 (1162) | −0.20 (1100) | −0.49 (1081) | −0.27 (1160) |
| Non-teaching hospitals | −0.33 (3089) | −0.14 (2810) | −0.18 (3020) | −0.05 (2301) | −0.28 (2117) | −0.29 (3041) |
| Critical access hospital | −0.10 (1231) | −0.16 (1031) | −0.05* (1174) | −0.06* (412) | −0.18 (405) | −0.06 (1199) |
| Not a critical access hospital | −0.34 (3024) | −0.16 (2903) | −0.23 (3008) | −0.15 (2989) | −0.38 (2793) | −0.29 (3002) |
| Nurse-to-bed ratio <1 | −0.40 (1872) | −0.18 (1659) | −0.19 (1815) | −0.12 (1334) | −0.34 (1168) | −0.31 (1836) |
| Nurse-to-bed ratio 1 to <2 | −0.43 (1847) | −0.13 (1772) | −0.30 (1836) | −0.15 (1575) | −0.42 (1546) | −0.28 (1832) |
| Nurse-to-bed ratio 2+ | −0.39 (536) | 0.13 (503) | −0.16 (531) | 0.09 (492) | −0.42 (484) | −0.38 (533) |
| Ownership: Government | −0.59 (957) | −0.33 (840) | −0.43 (920) | −0.21 (594) | −0.41 (499) | −0.35 (934) |
| Ownership: not-for-profit | −0.45 (2625) | −0.15 (2472) | −0.27 (2594) | −0.14 (2187) | −0.45 (2120) | −0.30 (2599) |
| Ownership: for-profit | −0.11 (673) | −0.06* (622) | 0.02* (6668) | <0.001* (620) | −0.19 (579) | −0.28 (668) |
*P value not significant (>0.05).
RSMRs, risk-standardised mortality rates.