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Table 2 Site surgical activity and achievement of surgery within 8 days during Chole-QuIC

From: Understanding the influences on successful quality improvement in emergency general surgery: learning from the RCS Chole-QuIC project

 

Activity—all admissions for biliary disease

% Procedures within 8 days

(all admissions)

Relative change from baseline

Combined model

(adjusted for control group)

Baseline

Intervention

Baseline (%)

Intervention (%)

Relative change

95% confidence interval

Relative change

95% confidence interval

All Chole-QuIC

13,929

7944

9.4

14.6

1.56*

1.38 to 1.75

1.45*

1.29 to 1.62

Control

147,495

83,391

14.2

15.3

1.08*

1.02 to 1.14

  

Site 1

521

301

8.8

25.9

2.94*

2.02 to 4.27

2.73*

1.88 to 3.96

Site 2

964

521

12.2

26.5

2.16*

1.69 to 2.77

2.01*

1.55 to 2.60

Site 3

513

355

16.8

35.2

2.10*

1.60 to 2.76

1.95*

1.47 to 2.59

Site 4

1103

629

9.9

20.8

2.09*

1.45 to 3.01

1.96*

1.50 to 2.55

Site 5

1333

770

4.6

8.6

1.88*

1.27 to 2.77

1.74*

1.22 to 2.49

Site 6

1114

619

8.5

14.7

1.72*

1.06 to 2.79

1.60*

1.19 to 2.16

Site 7

1189

627

6.7

11.2

1.68*

1.06 to 2.65

1.54*

1.11 to 2.15

Site 8

1413

900

14.4

19.6

1.35*

1.11 to 1.66

1.26*

1.01 to 1.56

Site 9

1213

684

6.5

8.3

1.28

0.88 to 1.85

1.19

0.84 to 1.68

Site 10

1476

760

8.4

8.8

1.03

0.64 to 1.66

0.97

0.72 to 1.33

Site 11

1505

793

2.9

3.0

1.02

0.59 to 1.77

0.96

0.58 to 1.59

Site 12

1585

985

16.5

14.2

0.86

0.69 to 1.09

0.8

0.64 to 100

  1. *Significant improvement (P < 0.05)
  2. Legend: Sites 1–4, highly successful group, sites 9–12, challenged group