Does a quality improvement campaign accelerate take-up of new evidence? A ten-state cluster-randomized controlled trial of the IHI’s Project JOINTS

Table 2 Characteristics of survey respondents at baseline (n = 549)

	Campaign states	Non-campaign states
	n = 235	n = 314
	%		p ^a
Staff position			<0.001
Surgeon	73.9	55.8
Physician assistant/nurse practitioner	13.7	9.6
Other^b	12.4	34.6
Surgical involvement			0.65
Pre-operative and peri-operative	77.7	74.4
Peri-operative only	19.3	21.8
Pre-operative only	3.0	3.9
Years working in current specialty or profession			0.012
Less than 6 years	14.1	22.6
6 to 10 years	16.2	19.4
More than 10 years	69.7	58.0
Years working in this hospital			< 0.001
Less than 6 years	23.0	38.8
6 to 10 years	20.4	20.2
More than 10 years	56.5	41.0
Years working in current unit			0.003
Less than 6 years	27.8	40.5
6 to 10 years	20.7	21.4
More than 10 years	51.5	38.2
Number of hours per week worked in this hospital			0.13
Less than 20	35.5	35.4
20–39	29.5	36.6
40 or more	35.0	28.0

^aMantel-Hanzel chi-square test; italics indicate p<0.05
^bOther categories included registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, licensed practical nurses, and surgical technicians

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