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Published in final edited form as: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2012 Oct 25;33(12):1185–1192. doi: 10.1086/668429

Table 1.

Comparison of the LTCF vs. Hospital before and after the Intervention

Variable	Preintervention^a	Postintervention^b	% Reduction	P value
Antibiotics (DOT/1000 DOC) as mean (± SD)^c
Total in LTCF	175.1 ± 28.0	122.3 ± 26.9	30.1%	<.001
Total in Hospital	631.8 ± 44.9	649.0 ± 38.4	-2.7%	.15
Oral in LTCF	136.1 ± 25.6	93.1 ± 22.0	31.6%	<.001
Oral in Hospital	185.3 ± 18.8	182.3 ± 19.4	-4.5%	.59
Intravenous in LTCF	39.0 ± 14.5	29.3 ± 10.6	25.0%	.01
Intravenous in Hospital	446.7 ± 39.0	466.7 ± 42.5	1.6%	.10
Admissions per month
LTCF	58.6 ± 11.3	48.1 ± 7.7	18.0%	<.001
Hospital	671.6 ± 36.1	720.4 ± 39.9	-7.3%	<.001
Transfers to Hospital per month
LTCF	19.0 ± 4.6	17.6 ± 4.5	7.6%	.27
Hospital	(not applicable)	(not applicable)

July, 2006 – June, 2009 (36 months)

July 2009 – December, 2010 (18 months)

DOT/1000 DOC, Days of Therapy/1000 Days of Care; SD, Standard Deviation