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Table 2 TCT responsiveness and temporal stability*

From: Validity and usefulness of members reports of implementation progress in a quality improvement initiative: findings from the Team Check-up Tool (TCT)

Change in TCT items and sum scores

High Activity (Change) Period

Low Activity

(Stable) Period

Number of CUSP activities**

(Range: 0 to 6)

0.88 (p < 0.01)

Monthly,

1 st quarter

-0.08 (p = 0.70)

Monthly,

3 rd quarter

Number of Educational activities**

(Range 0 to 6)

0.57 (p = 0.06)

Monthly,

1 st quarter

-0.28 (p = 0.15)

Monthly,

3 rd quarter

Number of Infection Prevention Behaviors**

(Range: 0 to 5)

0.52 (p = 0.02)

Quarterly,

1 st and 2 nd

0.01 (p = 0.92)

Quarterly,

3 rd and 4 th

Appropriate hand hygiene (Range: 1 to 4)

0.11 (p = 0.08)

-0.01 (p = 0.93)

Chlorhexidine skin preparation (Range: 1 to 4)

0.15 (p = 0.34)

-0.02 (p = 0.83)

Full-barrier precautions during line insertion (Range: 1 to 4)

0.22 (p = 0.04)

0.06 (p = 0.44)

Subclavian vein placement (Range: 1 to 4)

0.13 (p = 0.14)

0.04 (p = 0.73)

Removing unnecessary lines (Range: 1 to 4)

0.20 (p = 0.04)

0.03 (p = 0.73)

Number of Team Progress Barriers**

(Range: 0 to 13)

-0.62 (p = 0.18)

Quarterly, 1 st and 2 nd

-0.36 (p = 0.33)

Quarterly, 3 rd and 4 th

Insufficient knowledge

-0.21 (p = 0.15)

-0.03 (p = 0.52)

Lack of team consensus

-0.28 (p = 0.15)

-0.25 (p = 0.13)

Not enough time

-0.17 (p = 0.40)

-0.01 (p = 0.94)

Lack of quality improvement skills

-0.32 (p = 0.11)

-0.11 (p = 0.16)

Not enough buy-in from other staff

-0.39 (p = 0.03)

-0.07 (p = 0.51)

Not enough buy-in from other physician staff

-0.35 (p = 0.02)

-0.06 (p = 0.78)

Not enough buy-in from other nursing staff

-0.33 (p = 0.11)

-0.04 (p = 0.63)

Burden of data collection

-0.29 (p = 0.22)

-0.11 (p = 0.36)

Not enough leadership support from executives

-0.15 (p = 0.23)

0.13 (p = 0.43)

Not enough leadership support from physicians

-0.21 (p = 0.17)

0.01 (p = 0.96)

Not enough leadership support from nurses

-0.27 (p = 0.01)

-0.01 (p = 0.94)

Insufficient autonomy/authority

-0.23 (p = 0.03)

-0.20 (p = 0.24)

Inability of team to work together

-0.04 (p = 0.47)

-0.04 (p = 0.60)

  1. *Thirty-nine ICUs were included in the analysis (these 39 ICUs did not significantly differ from the seven ICUs excluded from the analyses in # beds, # MD intensivists, # nurses, type of ICUs, geographic region, nor time to first month of zero infections); Please refer to the Additional file 1, Table S1 for specific wording and response categories of each item: CUSP (item #1); educational activities (item #2); prevention behaviors (item #3a-e); barriers to team progress (item #15a to 15 m, 15 m1 to 15m5).