Italian hospitals on the web: a cross-sectional analysis of official websites

Table 7 Percentage of hospitals presenting the specified item: external activities

Number and description of the item as it appears in the Codebook	Public hospitals type 1 (PubHs-1)# N = 198	Public hospitals type 2 (PubHs-2)# N = 221	Private hospitals (PrHs) N = 344	p* value	p* value PubH-1 vs PrHs
	% of hospitals reporting the item
77. Possibility to read online or to download health-care booklets	19.2	7.2	10.8	0.01	0.01
78. Medical glossary available	4.6	0.5	0.6	<0.001	0.01
79. Scientific studies that the hospital promotes or is involved in	36.9	3.7	8.7	<0.001	<0.001
80. Undergraduate or postgraduate courses that are held at the hospital	44.9	1.8	13.1	<0.001	<0.001
81. Presence of a library	28.8	1.4	1.7	<0.001	<0.001
82. Schedule of activities that take place at the hospital: courses, congresses and conferences	65.1	3.2	26.5	<0.001	<0.001
83. Publication of the hospital itself	26.8	0.5	8.1	<0.001	<0.001
84. Details of job opportunities at the hospital	63.1	6.3	17.4	<0.001	<0.001
85. Associations that work at the hospital: voluntary associations	46.0	11.8	5.5	<0.001	<0.001
86. Associations that work at the hospital: patient associations	27.3	1.8	1.4	<0.001	<0.001
87. Associations that work at the hospital: associations for the defence of patients' rights	17.2	7.2	0.9	<0.001	<0.001
88. Information on how to make a donation to the hospital	20.2	0	4.1	<0.001	<0.001
89. The hospital in the media: press review	20.7	0.9	7.8	<0.001	<0.001

# PubHs-1: Public hospitals with their own website; PubHs-2: Public hospitals with a section on the website of their LHA
* Chi-square test or Fisher exact test, when appropriate

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