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Table 1 Participants’ demographic characteristics

From: Differences in the working pattern among wound, ostomy, and continence nurses with and without conducting the specified medical act: a multicenter time and motion study

			T-WN^a		N-WN^b
			n = 6		n = 5		p value
WOCN properties
Nursing years of experience	median	range	24.0	18–28	24.0	14–25	0.70^c
WOCN^e years of experience	mean	SD	13.0	2.6	9.0	3.7	0.70^d
Institution properties
Type of hospital
University hospital			2		1
Community-based hospital			4		4
Bed capacity	mean	SD	685.0	311.0	606.0	189.8	0.78^d
Bed occupancy rate	mean	SD	85.7	5.9	84.6	8.5	0.93^d
Outpatients one day	mean	SD	1505.2	525.4	1419.9	425.3	0.78^d
Hospitalization days	median	range	12.1	11.9–14.1	12.6	12.2–15.2	0.05^c

^aTrained Wound,Ostomy and Continence Nurse, ^bNon-trained Wound,Ostomy and Continence Nurse, ^cMann-Whitney U test, ^dt- test, ^eWound,Ostomy and Continence Nurse

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