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Table 2 Patient assessment and laboratory safety measures

From: The impact of hospital accreditation on quality measures: an interrupted time series analysis

Model validation and parameter estimation

Diagnostic tests

Patient assessment measures

Intercept

Time(β1)

Intervention (β2) (Change in level)

Tim_Aft_Int (β3) (Change in slope)

R2

Autocorrelation (AC) Check

Test for Seasonality/Stationarity

(Durbin Watson)

(Dickey Fuller Unit Root Test)

Value

P-value

Value

P-value

Coefficient 95% confidence interval (LCI-UCI)

P-value

Coefficient 95% confidence interval (LCI-UCI)

P-value

R2

D-Value (before)

D-Value (after)

P-value

Result

Y 1

78.60

0.00*

1.19

0.35

−4.54 (−16.33 to 7.25)

0.44

−0.99(−3.63 to 1.65)

0.45

0.38

1.00

1.92

0.03

No Seasonality

Y 2

96.17

0.00*

0.13

0.53

1.24 (−1.63 to 4.11)

0.38

−0.18 (−0.60 to 0.24)

0.39

0.09

1.46

No AC

0.00

No Seasonality

Y 3

94.56

0.00*

0.16

0.85

−4.00 (−12.10 to 4.10)

0.33

−0.02 (−1.82 to 1.77)

0.98

0.34

1.05

2.22

0.04

No Seasonality

Y 4

32.56

0.00*

7.02

0.00*

−13.91 (−32.37 to 4.56)

0.14

−7.28 (−10.00 to −4.56)

0.00*

0.48

1.72

No AC

0.00

No Seasonality

Laboratory safety measures

Y 5 (in hours)

7.06

0.00*

−0.36

0.00*

0.34(0.13, 0.54)

0.52

0.34(0.04, 0.64)

0.00*

0.73

1.31

2.11

0.04

No Seasonality

Y 6 (minutes)

47.58

0.00*

0.15

0.46

−0.43(−2.99, 2.13)

0.74

−0.60(−1.02, −0.18)

0.01*

0.90

1.85

No AC

0.95

Data is not stationary

  1. AC refers to Autocorrelation, D-Value is the Durbin Watson statistic, *P ≤ 0.05 is considered significant.