Table 4.
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.