Table 1.

Hospital pharmacists’ mean self-reported confidence scores providing vancomycin management advice by years of practice experience

Confidence domains	Median (IQR) confidence scores			p value1
	All respondents n = 35	<5 years of experience n = 13	>5 years of experience n =  22
Therapeutic target range	2 (1–2)	1 (1–3)	2 (1–3)	0.04
Timing of first blood concentration	2 (1–2)	1 (1–3)	2 (1–4)	0.02
General advice to prescribers	2 (2–2)	2 (1–3)	2 (1–4)	0.32
Loading dose	2 (2–2)	2 (1–3)	2 (1–4)	0.13
Amending dosing based on TDM	2 (2–3)	2 (1–3)	2 (1–3)	0.10
Frequency of blood concentrations	2 (2–3)	2 (1–4)	2 (1–3)	0.83
Administration rate	2 (2–3)	3 (1–5)	2 (1–4)	0.13
Management of infusion related reactions	3 (2–3)	3 (1–5)	3 (1–5)	0.36

1 =  strongly agree, 2 = agree, 3 = not sure, 4 = disagree, 5 = strongly disagree

TDM therapeutic drug monitoring, IQR interquartile range, ¹ Using Mann-Whitney