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

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Table 2 Hospital pharmacists’ mean self-reported confidence scores on providing vancomycin management advice by recent experience with vancomycin

Confidence domains	Median (IQR) confidence scores		p value¹
Confidence domains	Provided advice <10 times in last 12 months n = 17	Provided advice >10 times in last 12 months n = 18	p value¹
Therapeutic target range	2 (1–3)	1 (1–2)	0.02
Timing of first blood concentration	2 (1–4)	2 (1–3)	0.11
General advice to prescribers	2 (2–4)	2 (1–3)	0.009
Loading dose	2 (1–4)	2 (1–3)	0.10
Amending dosing based on TDM	3 (2–3)	2 (1–3)	<0.001
Frequency of TDM	2 (1–3)	2 (1–4)	0.85
Administration rate	2 (1–4)	2 (1–5)	0.75
Management of infusion related reactions	3 (1–5)	2.5 (1–5)	0.63

1 = strongly agree, 2 = agree, 3 = neutral, 4 = disagree, 5 = strongly disagree
TDM therapeutic drug monitoring, IQR interquartile range, ¹Using Mann-Whitney