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Table 6 International patient safety goals

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

Model validation and parameter estimation

Diagnostic tests

International Patient Safety Goal 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 22

40.56

0.000*

5.20

0.00*

0.79(−4.37, 5.94)

0.76

−5.269-6.19, −4.34)

0.00*

0.94

1.05

2.07

0.00

No Seasonality

Y 23

25.70

0.000*

7.51

0.00*

−14.89(−21.30, −8.49)

0.00*

−7.36(−8.64, −6.08)

0.00*

0.90

1.1

2.43

0.14

Seasonality

Y 24

91.94

0.000*

0.65

0.00*

0.21(−2.46, 2.89)

0.87

−0.67(−1.07, −0.28)

0.00*

0.42

1.96

No AC

0.00

No Seasonality

Y 25

−0.02

0.96

0.02

0.71

0.14(−0.43, 0.71)

0.62

−0.02(−0.11, 0.06)

0.62

0.03

1.72

No AC

0.00

No Seasonality

Y 26

98.48

0.00*

−0.10

0.1

1.71(1.04, 2.38)

0.00*

0.11(0.00, 0.230)

0.06

0.52

2.86

2.03

0.06

Data Not Stationary

Y 27

55.51

0.00*

55.51

0.00*

−1.67(−6.29, 2.96)

0.47

−4.26(−5.30, −3.22)

0.00*

0.90

0.89

2.6

0.26

No Seasonality

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