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Table 1 Site characteristics

From: Cost analysis of a coaching intervention to increase use of transradial percutaneous coronary intervention

 

Participants (n = 7 sites)

Non-participants (n = 73 sites)*

Interventional cardiologists (mean, SD)

4.7 (0.8)

3.7 (1.9)

Diagnostic case volume (mean, SD)

595 (226)

410 (219)

 % TRA (mean, range)

27% (2.5–64%)

54% (0–93%)

PCI volume (mean, SD)

230 (139)

126 (934)

 % TRA (mean, range)

22% (2–44%)

46% (0–95%)

Facility bed size (mean, SD)

135 (66)

103 (42)

Academic affiliation (n, %)

7 (100%)

73 (100%)

Onsite surgical backup (n, %)

4 (57%)

37 (51%)

  1. Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; TRA, transradial approach; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention
  2. *Non-participant sites include all VA facilities that have a cardiac catheterization lab