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. 2018 Sep 10;7:109. doi: 10.1186/s13756-018-0400-7

Table 5.

Interrupted time series analysis of the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics in defined daily doses per 100 bed days for intervention and control groups from 2013 to 2015

Audit with feedback (Intervention wards) Academic detailing (Intervention wards Pulmonary medicine (Intervention wards) Infectious diseases (Intervention wards) Gastroenterology (Intervention ward) Control (all specialties)
Estimate SE p-value Estimate SE p-value Estimate SE p-value Estimate SE p-value Estimate SE p-value Estimate SE p-value
DDD per 100 bed days Const 70.288 5.854 0.000 103.078 8.415 0.000 84.736 5.056 0.000 60.371 7.407 0.000 27.605 1.592 0.000 87.691 5.387 0.000
AR −0.495 0.326 0.172 −0.247 0.370 0.525 −0.429 0.348 0.257 −0.239 0.372 0.542 −0.796 0.203 0.006 −0.512 0.323 0.157
Pre-slope 4.332 1.523 0.025 −2.903 2.181 0.225 −2.292 1.312 0.124 3.985 1.926 0.077 −0.075 0.411 0.861 1.002 1.404 0.498
Difference between pre- and post-slope −6.789 2.028 0.012 2.920 2.985 0.360 −0.669 1.770 0.717 −5.753 2.615 0.064 2.472 0.545 0.003 −1.033 1.863 0.597
Level effect
 3 months −8.971 7.809 0.288 −3.162 11.053 0.783 8.314 6.686 0.254 −10.360 9.839 0.327 −11.157 2.082 0.001 1.407 7.191 0.850
 6 months −15.761 8.313 0.100 −0.242 11.823 0.984 7.646 7.131 0.319 −16.112 10.503 0.169 −8.685 2.220 0.006 0.374 7.672 0.962
 12 months −29.338 10.490 0.027 5.599 15.115 0.722 6.308 9.052 0.508 −27.617 13.357 0.077 −3.740 2.811 0.225 −1.691 9.694 0.866
 18 months −42.916 13.561 0.016 11.439 19.708 0.580 4.971 11.751 0.685 −39.122 17.355 0.059 1.205 3.640 0.750 −3.757 12.525 0.773

Broad-spectrum antibiotics were defined as penicillins with enzyme inhibitor, 2. and 3. generation cephalosporins, carbapenems and quionolones