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Table 1 Post hoc comparisons using least significant difference
| Baseline (1) (n = 607) | Financial incentive (2) (n = 277) | Process improvement team constituted (3) (n = 81) | Centralized responsibility (4) (n = 116) | Checklist (5) (n = 151) | Ambulance fast track (6) (n = 266) | Moved day- surgeries (7) (n = 395) | 4 extra beds (8) (n = 49) | All ambulance fast track (9) (n = 244) | Specialist in internal medicine (10) (n = 514) | Flow coordinator (11) (n = 364) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline (1) | 0 | 0.7 (−1.4; 2.8) | 0.9 (−2.5; 4.3) | 6.1* (3.2; 9.0) | 4.1* (1.5; 6.8) | 6.6* (4.5; 8.8) | 5.7* (3.9; 7.6) | 6.8* (2.5; 11.1) | 8.0* (5.8; 10.2) | 4.8* (3.1; 6.5) | 8.5* (6.6; 10.4) |
| Financial incentive (2) | 0 | 0.2 (−3.5; 3.8) | 5.4* (2.2; 8.6) | 3.4* (0.5; 6.3) | 5.9* (3.4; 8.4) | 5.0* (2.7; 7.3) | 6.1* (1.6; 10.6) | 7.3* (4.7; 9.8) | 4.1* (1.9; 6.2) | 7.8* (5.5; 10.1) | |
| Process improvement team constituted (3) | 0 | 5.2* (1.0; 9.4) | 3.20 (−0.8; 7.2) | 5.7* (2.0; 9.4) | 4.8* (1.3; 8.3) | 5.9* (0.7; 11.1) | 7.1* (3.4; 10.8) | 3.9* (0.4; 7.3) | 7.6* (4.0; 11.1) | ||
| Centralized responsibility (4) | 0 | −2.0 (−5.5; 1.6) | 0.5 (−2.7; 3.7) | −0.4 (−3.4; 2.7) | 0.7 (−4.2; 5.6) | 1.9 (−1.4; 5.1) | −1.3 (−4.3; 1.7) | 2.4 (−0.7; 5.5) | |||
| Checklist (5) | 0 | 2.5 (−0.4; 5.4) | 1.6 (−1.2; 4.4) | 2.7 (−2.1; 7.4) | 3.9* (0.9; 6.8) | 0.6 (−2.0; 3.3) | 4.4* (1.6; 7.1) | ||||
| Ambulance fast track (6) | 0 | −0.9 (−3.2; 1.4) | 0.2 (−4.3; 4.7) | 1.4 (−1.2, 3.9) | −1.8 (−4.0; 0.3) | 1.9 (−0.5; 4.2) | |||||
| Moved day-surgeries (7) | 0 | 1.1 (−3.3; 5.5) | 2.3 (−0.1; 4.6) | −1.0 (−2.9; 1.0) | 2.8* (0.7; 4.9) | ||||||
| 4 extra beds (8) | 0 | 1.2 (−3.4; 5.7) | −2.0 (−6.4; 2.3) | 1.7 (−2.7; 6.1) | |||||||
| All ambulance (9) | 0 | −3.2* (−5.5; −1.0) | 0.5 (−1.9; 2.9) | ||||||||
| Specialist in internal medicine (10) | 0 | 3.7* (1.7; 5.7) | |||||||||
| Flow coordinator (11) | 0* |
