Table 3.
Contact rates, compliance and cohorting
| Variable | Period | p-value* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | Heterogeneous | Homogeneous | ||
| Observation of patients | ||||
| No. of HCW–patient contacts | 435 | 132 | 186 | |
| Contact rates of patients (contacts/h) | 4.0 ± 1.8 | 2.9 ± 1.3 | 4.3 ± 2.5 | 0.01/0.70 |
| Compliance (%) | 55 | 57 | 53 | 0.77/0.73 |
| Physicians (%) | 59 | 63 | 43 | 0.75/0.28 |
| Nurses (%) | 53 | 55 | 58 | 0.73/0.42 |
| Observation of nurses | ||||
| No. of HCW–patient contacts | 352 | 119 | 148 | |
| Contact rates nurses (contacts/h) | 3.2 ± 1.3 | 2.5 ± 1.0 | 2.8 ± 1.4 | 0.02/0.28 |
| Cohorted contacts (%) | 71 ± 22 | 74 ± 23 | 74 ± 25 | 0.66/0.65 |
* Comparison of baseline versus heterogeneous/homogeneous