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Table 5 Infection control and content and use of patient records measures

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

Infection Control, Surveillance and Reporting 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 18

6.90

0.00*

-0.71

0.00*

1.41(0.09, 2.72)

0.04*

0.70(0.31, 1.100

0.001*

0.30

1.63

No AC

0.00

No Seasonality

Y 19

0.65

0.22

-0.05

0.48

0.25(-0.81, 1.32)

0.63

0.08(-0.08, 0.23)

0.33

0.12

1.61

No AC

0.00

No Seasonality

Y 20

0.08

0.50

0.00

1.00

-0.05(-0.29, 0.18)

0.64

0.00(-0.03, 0.04)

0.81

0.51

2.31

No AC

0.00

No Seasonality

Availability, Content and Use of Patient Records

Y 17

57.33

0.000*

1.95

0.0058*

4.33(-4.98, 13.64)

0.35

-1.85(-3.22, -0.480

0.01*

0.54

1.75

No AC

0.01

No Seasonality

Mortality Rate

Y 21

-0.04

0.59

0.02

0.15

-0.01(-0.16, 0.140

0.90

-0.02(-0.04, 0.01)

0.15

0.10

2

No AC

0.00

No Seasonality

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