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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Infect Control. 2020 May 8;48(11):1322–1328. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.04.024

Table 1.

ORCA scores for all subscales by provider type

subscale Overall,
Mean (SD)
n=104
Providers,
Mean (SD)
n=42*
Nurses,
Mean (SD)
n=20
Pharmacists,
Mean (SD)
n=42
P-value**
Evidence Assessment 4.0 (0.9) 4.1 (0.9) 3.7 (1.0) 4.0 (0.7) 0.18
Leader Culture 3.5 (9.0) 3.7 (0.7) 3.6 (1.1) 3.3 (0.8) 0.07
Staff Culture 3.8 (0.8) 4.0 (0.5) 3.5 (1.0) 3.7 (0.8) 0.02
Leadership Behavior 3.2 (0.9) 4.0 (0.5) 3.5 (1.0) 3.7 (0.8) 0.07
Measurement 3.2 (0.9) 3.4 (0.8) 3.1 (0.9) 3.1 (0.9) 0.14
Opinion Leaders 3.7 (0.7) 3.8 (0.7) 3.7 (0.8) 3.7 (0.6) 0.64
General Resources 2.8 (0.9) 2.8 (0.8) 2.9 (1.1) 2.4 (0.9) 0.55

Note. ORCA, Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment; SD, standard deviation.

*

Includes 17 Infectious Diseases physicians, 12 staff physicians, 5 nurse practitioners, 4 resident physicians, and 4 physician assistants.

**

P values refer to Kruskal-Wallis tests