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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Trials. 2016 Apr 19;13(4):425–433. doi: 10.1177/1740774516643265

Table 3.

Ratio of monthly enrollment of subjects per students versus nurses adjusted for key covariates.* Values shown are rate ratios (RR) with 95% CI. Baseline categories are identified for each categorical covariate.

RRa (95% CI) Global p-value Individual p-value
Title Nurses (baseline) na -
Students 5.44 (2.88, 10.27) <0.01
Active Time 0.95 (0.92, 0.99) 0.01
Season Winter (baseline) na <0.01 -
Spring 1.77 (1.34, 2.35) <0.01
Summer 0.97 (0.72, 1.31) 0.86
Fall 0.98 (0.69, 1.39) 0.92
Hospitalb A(baseline) na 0.15 -
B 0.96 (0.27, 3.41) 0.95
C 1.45 (0.77, 2.71) 0.25
D 1.25 (0.27, 5.74) 0.77
E 1.58 (0.78, 3.21) 0.21
F 0.76 (0.34, 1.68) 0.50
G 1.03 (0.32, 3.24) 0.97
H 0.39 (0.17, 0.92) 0.03
a

RR: Rate Ratio which is the frequency of enrollment occurring by month over the duration of enrollers participating in the study;

b

Hospital names- see prior figure.

*

The model assumed a negative bionomial distribution and was fit using generalized estimating equations