Measuring influenza laboratory capacity: use of a tool to measure improvements

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Statistical Significance between First and Second Assessments on the adjusted scores^a

Category	First Assessment	95% Confidence Interval		Second Assessment	95% Confidence Interval		p-value
Category	First Assessment	Lower	Upper	Second Assessment	Lower	Upper	p-value
Overall Assessment	0.57460	0.49340	0.65570	0.67080	0.58970	0.75720	<.0001
Equipment	0.39220	0.27600	0.50830	0.58780	0.47160	0.70390	0.0003
Management	0.60540	0.48930	0.72160	0.74730	0.62750	0.85980	0.0099
Molecular	0.67910	0.56300	0.79530	0.78070	0.66460	0.80600	0.0564
NIC Criteria	0.50000	0.38380	0.61620	0.53100	0.41490	0.64720	0.5578
QA/QC	0.54800	0.43190	0.66420	0.72610	0.60990	0.84220	0.0010
Safety	0.54590	0.42970	0.66200	0.64780	0.53170	0.76400	0.0556
Specimen	0.77290	0.65670	0.88900	0.79080	0.67470	0.90700	0.7340
Virology	0.55290	0.43680	0.66910	0.55880	0.44270	0.67500	0.9114

^aMultivariate model with the adjusted score as outcome and the category, the assessment, and its interaction term as independent variables

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