TABLE 2.

AMOUNT OF PROMPTING NEEDED IN INTERVENTION GROUP

Variable	Prompting Patient-days/Rounding Patient-days (%)*
Overall†	334/516 (64.7)
Foley catheter‡	98/238 (41.2)
Empirical antibiotics	103/284 (36.3)
Central venous catheter	53/206 (25.7)
Mechanical ventilation	35/249 (14.1)
DVT prophylaxis§	5/336 (1.5)
Stress ulcer prophylaxis§	5/497 (1.0)

Definition of abbreviation: DVT = deep vein thrombosis.

Note: Intervention group, n = 140.

^*Represents interventions in the 140 prompted group patients during the 82 days of the study. Shown is the total number of patient-days on which a prompting intervention occurred divided by total number of patient-days on which rounding occurred. For each variable (except overall), only rounding patient-days during which the variable was present were included (e.g., only days on which patients were mechanically ventilated were included as rounding patient-days for this variable).

^†Number of patient-days on which prompting occurred at least once.

^‡Mechanically ventilated patients were ineligible for Foley catheter prompting.

^§Rounding days are the total patient-days eligible for DVT or stress ulcer prophylaxis, respectively.