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Table 5.

Summary of knowledge vignettes with the corresponding percentage of correct answers with comparison across teaching hospitals

Clinical vignette	Percentage correct (%)	P value^b
Clinical vignette	N = 595	P value^b
Complicated UTI: appropriate antimicrobial selection and duration of treatment	52.3	<0.001^a
Recognize the spectrum of activity of selected antimicrobial agents	22.3	0.114
Diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia: selection of appropriate antimicrobial and switch intravenous to oral therapy	45.0	0.017^a
Recognize Clostridium difficile infection secondary to the use of antimicrobials	89.4	0.025^a
Recognize the possible risks associated with unnecessary use of antimicrobials	50.7	<0.001^a
Match the antimicrobial/organism with most likely mechanism of resistance
E. coli/β-lactam resistance	39.1	<0.001^a
S. aureus/methicillin resistance	37.0	0.326
S. aureus/vancomycin intermediate	27.5	0.032^a
Enterococcus/cephalosporin	11.9	0.018^a
Extended spectrum β-lactamase positive E. coli bacteremia: antimicrobial selection	5.0	0.1
Identify scenarios with potential for unnecessary use of antimicrobials	5.0	0.439

UTI urinary tract infection

^aP < 0.05 refers to statistical differences in the percentages of different teaching hospitals

^bKruskal–Wallis test