4. Unintended consequences of ITS studies: other.
Study | Prescribing target | Design of analysis | Effect measure | Effect estimate | 95% CI |
Bell 2014 | Antibiotic choice | ITS, segmented regression | Risk of postoperative acute kidney injury | Increase 98% | 93.8% to 94.2% |
Van Kasteren 2005 | Exposure, duration | Cohort | Surgical‐site infection | Decrease 0.8% | ‐2.2% to 0.6% |
Volpe 2012 | Time to first antibiotic dose | Cohort | Left without being seen rate | Decrease 0.4% | No data |
CI: confidence interval ITS: interrupted time series