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. 2016 Mar 15;5:331. doi: 10.1186/s40064-016-1966-2

Table 2.

Hospital pharmacists’ mean self-reported confidence scores on providing vancomycin management advice by recent experience with vancomycin

Confidence domains Median (IQR) confidence scores p value1
Provided advice <10 times in last 12 months
n = 17
Provided advice >10 times in last 12 months
n = 18
Therapeutic target range 2 (1–3) 1 (1–2) 0.02
Timing of first blood concentration 2 (1–4) 2 (1–3) 0.11
General advice to prescribers 2 (2–4) 2 (1–3) 0.009
Loading dose 2 (1–4) 2 (1–3) 0.10
Amending dosing based on TDM 3 (2–3) 2 (1–3) <0.001
Frequency of TDM 2 (1–3) 2 (1–4) 0.85
Administration rate 2 (1–4) 2 (1–5) 0.75
Management of infusion related reactions 3 (1–5) 2.5 (1–5) 0.63

1 =  strongly agree, 2 = agree, 3 = neutral, 4 = disagree, 5 = strongly disagree

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