TABLE 3.

Associations between Professional Background, Infection Prevention and Control Department, and Hospital Characteristics with the Mean Number of Correct Responses

Variable	No. of correct responses, mean ± SD	P
		Unadjusted	Adjusteda
Job title		.18	.11
Infection preventionist	3.62 ± 0.89
Hospital epidemiologist	3.95 ± 1.22
Clinical background		.063	.044
Yes (n = 81)	3.78 ± 0.10
No (n = 26)	3.38 ± 0.18
Infection control and prevention department size		.29	.16
Less than 5 persons (n = 62)	3.60 ± 0.14
At least 5 persons (n = 43)	3.79 ± 0.11
Hospital size		.53	.74
Less than 500 beds (n = 41)	3.63 ± 1.56
At least 500 beds (n = 63)	3.75 ± 0.10
Years in infection control and prevention		.61	.62
Less than 5 years (n = 23)	3.65 ± 0.18
At least 5 years (n = 82)	3.76 ± 0.10
CIC		.77	.79
Yes (n = 62)	3.77 ± 0.11
No (n = 32)	3.72 ± 0.15
Presence of or plans for state-mandated healthcare-associated infection reporting		.071	.55
Yes (n = 95)	3.71 ± 0.095
No (n = 18)	3.33 ± 0.28

NOTE. SD, standard deviation.

^aNegative binomial models were used for analyses. Multivariate analyses adjusted for the size of the hospital, presence of a clinical background, presence of a Certification in Infection Control (CIC) credential, years of experience in infection control and prevention, size of the infection prevention and control department, presence of or plans for state-mandated reporting, and whether the respondent had recorded the name of the hospital. Mean number of correct responses in each category (of a possible 6) are presented. P values are for the difference between the 2 groups; significance is indicated by boldface type. Analyses are considered statistically significant at α =.05.