Table 2.

Baseline Characteristics of Intervention and Control Groups

	Intervention group	Control group	p-value
Physician factors at baseline
No. of physicians	73	48
Specialty, n (%)			0.33
Medicine	35 (48)	19 (40)
Surgery	32 (44)	21 (44)
Oncology	6 (8)	8 (17)
Patient factors at baseline
No. of patients	97	60
Mean age, years (SD)	63.8 (17.3)	65.4 (19.9)	0.60
Median length of stay,   days (IQR)	3 (2–6)	3 (2–7)	0.81
Culture type, n (%)			0.13
Urine	82 (85)	56 (93)
Non-urine	15 (15)	4 (7)
Female, n (%)	60 (62)	48 (80)	0.02
Race, n (%)			0.85
White	74 (76)	47 (78)
Non-white or unknown	23 (24)	13 (22)