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Table 3 Surgical procedures and medication error use and near-misses

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

Model validation and parameter estimation

Diagnostic tests

Surgical Procedure Measures

Intercept

Time(β 1 )

Intervention (β 2 ) (Change in level)

Tim_Aft_Int (β 3 ) (Change in slope)

R2

Autocorrelation (AC) Check (Durbin Watson)

Test for Seasonality/Stationarity (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

D-Value (before)

D-Value (after)

P-value

Result

Y 7

87.91

0.00*

1.21

0.00*

−2.70(−4.76, −0.63)

0.01*

−1.18(−1.72, −0.64)

0.01*

0.96

1.30

2.53

0.00

No Seasonality

Y 8

14.89

0.00*

−0.28

0.38

−0.36(−4.66, 3.95)

0.87

0.32(−0.31, 0.95)

0.31

0.49

2.10

No AC

0.00

No Seasonality

Y 9

0.08

0.5

0.003

0.88

−0.05(−0.30, 0.20)

0.69

0.01(−0.03, 0.04)

0.63

0.34

1.86

No AC

0.00

No Seasonality

Reported medication error measure

Y 10

0.03

0.03*

0.002

0.21

−0.04(−0.06, −0.01)

0.00*

−0.00(−0.01, 0.00)

0.18

0.35

1.56

No AC

0.00

No Seasonality

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