Table 3.

Percentage Reporting Utilization of Quality Improvement Interventions by Condition

	AMI		HF		PN		THR/TKR		CABG║
	Top‡	Bottom§	Top‡	Bottom§	Top‡	Bottom§	Top‡	Bottom§	Top‡	Bottom§
Order sets	93.3	89.7	88.9	76.9	93.3	84.6	91.1†	64.1†	93.5	87.5
Clinical pathways	48.9†	15.4†	44.4†	17.9†	37.8†	12.8†	55.6†	23.1†	45.2	31.3
Educational sessions, physicians	77.8	71.8	75.6	71.8	71.1	69.2	62.2	53.8	67.7	68.8
Educational sessions, nurses	86.7	76.9	86.7	74.4	82.2	76.9	71.1	79.3	74.2	68.8
Multidisciplinary team	93.3*	76.9*	93.3†	69.2†	86.7	74.4	84.4	66.7	96.8	81.3

Χ² (or Fisher-exact) testing between top and bottom performing hospitals for each quality improvement intervention in each clinical condition was not statistically significant (p > 0.05), unless marked otherwise: *p < 0.05; ^†p < 0.01

^‡Top performing: n = 45 for AMI, HF, PN, THR/TKR & n = 31 for CABG

^§Bottom performing: n = 39 for AMI, HF, PN, THR/TKR & n = 16 for CABG

^║Asked only of respondents of hospitals that performed CABG