Table 5.

Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Antibiotic Use

	Pre-intervention cohort (n = 158)			Post-intervention cohort (n = 151)
Specific Measure	Number at risk	Number compliant	% compliance	Number at risk	Number compliant	% compliance	p
No extra pre-operative antibiotic administered	158	113	71.5	151	131	86.8	0.001
Post-operative antibiotic agents discontinued within 24 h	152	117	77.0	146	131	89.7	0.002
No post-operative antibiotic agents given after completion of laparotomy	152	51	33.6	146	90	61.6	< 0.001