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Table 2 Baseline of the operators

From: Application of plan-do-check-act management to improve first-attempt insertion success rates of internal jugular vein catheterization for standardized training residents in an intensive care unit

 

historic control group

PDCA group

X2

P value

Number of cases

20

36

0.240

0.625

  Residents in the third year of standardized training [cases, n(%)]

13(65%)

21(58%)

  Residents in the second year of standardized training [cases, n(%)]

7(35%)

15(42%)

Majors of the residents

1.3060a

0.835

 Internal medicine

9 (45%)

17 (47%)

 Anaesthesiology

1 (5%)

1 (3%)

 Surgery

3 (15%)

3 (8%)

 Undetermined

7 (35%)

15 (42%)

  1. a: Fisher exact probability method