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Table 1 a) Age of and mortality among adult patients across the three study years, and b) physicians’ and nurses’ participation rates in educational training sessions in the intervention year 2013, by study arms

From: Impact of psychologically tailored hand hygiene interventions on nosocomial infections with multidrug-resistant organisms: results of the cluster-randomized controlled trial PSYGIENE

 

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Mean age of adult patients (standard deviation)*

Mortality rate (95% confidence interval)

Physicians working in study arm in the intervention year 2013

Physicians participating in at least one educational training session in the intervention year 2013

Nurses working in study arm in the intervention year 2013

Nurses participating in at least one educational training session in the intervention year 2013

“Tailoring”-study arm

2013

60.6 years (3.4 years)

7.3% (6.7–8.0%)

n = 315

n = 139 (participation rate: 44.1%)

n = 367

n = 190 (participation rate: 51.8%)

2014

61.0 years (3.9 years)

7.0% (6.4–7.6%)

2013

61.8 years(4.1 years)

7.5% (6.8–8.2%)

“ASH”- study arm

2013

62.1 years(8.0 years)

5.2% (4.4–6.0%)

n = 200

n = 108 (participation rate: 54.0%)

n = 205

n = 94 (participation rate: 45.9%)

2014

62.1 years(8.2 years)

4.8% (4.1–5.6%)

2013

62.8 years(8.9 years)

5.8% (5.0–6.7%)

  1. *Weighted means and standard deviations