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. 2017 Apr 13;29(3):406–411. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzx039

Table 4.

Binomial regression analyses based on consistent implementation of six patient safety critical standards from the DDKM version 2

Patient safety critical standards Intervention group (12 clusters) Control group (11 clusters) Absolute difference (95% CI) Robust standard error P-value
Consistent implementation Nonconsistent implementation Consistent implementation Nonconsistent implementation
No. (%) Percentage points Bootstrapped
Patient identification 225 (98.25) 4 (1.75) 198 (97.50) 5 (2.46) 0.41 (−2.84–3.66) 1.66 0.81
Timely reaction to diagnostic tests 438 (95.42) 21 (4.58) 396 (97.30) 11 (2.70) 0.95 (−5.45–7.35) 3.27 0.77
Medical prescription 268 (98.53) 4 (1.47) 241 (98.80) 3 (1.23) −0.93 (−2.58–0.73) 0.84 0.27
Medical exemption 256 (99.22) 2 (0.78) 235 (97.90) 5 (2.08) 3.90 (−4.77–12.56) 4.42 0.38
Medical administration 352 (97.24) 10 (2.76) 315 (98.40) 5 (1.56) −1.40 (−5.52–2.72) 2.10 0.51
Safe surgery 67 (93.06) 5 (6.94) 65 (94.20) 4 (5.80) −0.48 (−14.22–13.26) 7.01 0.95
Overall/converged analysis 1993 (97.41) 53 (2.59) 1809 (98.10) 35 (1.90) −0.78 (−4.01–2.44) 1.64 0.99

CI, confidence interval. Results are reported with risk difference as association measure and with bootstrapped robust standard errors.