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Table 4 Patient characteristics during quality improvement intervention

From: A pre and post intervention study to reduce unnecessary urinary catheter use on general internal medicine wards of a large academic health science center

 

Pre-intervention (N = 824)

Post-interventions (N = 777)

P

Female, N(%)

415 (50.4)

417 (53.7)

p = 0.186

Ward 1, N(%)

388 (47.1)

371 (47.8)

p = 0.791

Age, mean (median, IQR)

73.0 (74, 61–85)

72.6 (75,58–85)

p = 0.618

Length of stay, mean (median)

7.0 days (7)

6.6 days (6)

p = 0.169

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BMC Health Services Research

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