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Table 4 Global results - baseline and follow up assessment

From: Results of a sector-wide quality improvement initiative for substance-abuse care: an uncontrolled before-after study in Catalonia, Spain

Domain Mean compliance at baseline assessment Mean compliance at follow up evaluation Improvement in compliance (%; 95% confidence interval) P-value for difference in compliance* Statistic
Overall compliance 1 60.9% 79.1% 29.9% (22.4%; 37.3%) < 0.001 F1,12 = 47.40
By dimension      
   Care pathway2 66.5% 83.5% 25.6% (15.0%; 36.1%) 0.002 Chi21= 9.8
   Relations and user rights1 66.5% 72.5% 9.0% (-5.9%; 23.9%) 0.124 F1,21= 2.57
   Organization and management2 50.5% 77.2% 52.9% (37.8%; 67.9%) < 0.001 Chi21= 11.64
   Environment and infrastructure3 81.8% 95.5% 13.63% (-0.7%; 28.0%)4 0.16 (0.002)5 T Wald = -2.97
  1. 1ANOVA ONE-WAY for repeated measures
  2. 2 Friedman Test
  3. 3 Logistic regression with dependent variable 'improvement in compliance'
  4. 4 Hospitals that improved: % (95% CI)
  5. 5 Odds-ratio (hospitals improved/hospitals did not improve: the probability to improve is significantly lower than 1 (0.136) at p-value 0.002.
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