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Table 1 Hospital pharmacists’ mean self-reported confidence scores providing vancomycin management advice by years of practice experience

From: The impact of a pilot continuing professional development module on hospital pharmacists’ preparedness to provide contemporary advice on the clinical use of vancomycin

Confidence domains

Median (IQR) confidence scores

p value1

All respondents

n = 35

<5 years of experience

n = 13

>5 years of experience

n =  22

Therapeutic target range

2 (1–2)

1 (1–3)

2 (1–3)

0.04

Timing of first blood concentration

2 (1–2)

1 (1–3)

2 (1–4)

0.02

General advice to prescribers

2 (2–2)

2 (1–3)

2 (1–4)

0.32

Loading dose

2 (2–2)

2 (1–3)

2 (1–4)

0.13

Amending dosing based on TDM

2 (2–3)

2 (1–3)

2 (1–3)

0.10

Frequency of blood concentrations

2 (2–3)

2 (1–4)

2 (1–3)

0.83

Administration rate

2 (2–3)

3 (1–5)

2 (1–4)

0.13

Management of infusion related reactions

3 (2–3)

3 (1–5)

3 (1–5)

0.36

  1. 1 =  strongly agree, 2 = agree, 3 = not sure, 4 = disagree, 5 = strongly disagree
  2. TDM therapeutic drug monitoring, IQR interquartile range, 1 Using Mann-Whitney