Nationwide multicenter questionnaire surveys on countermeasures against antimicrobial resistance and infections in hospitals

Table 6 Characteristics of each latent status

	Latent status
Domain, number of questions in each domain	1	2	3	4	5
Antimicrobial stewardship, 8	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗
Surveillance, 3	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗
Medical and hospital equipment, 4			✗	✓	✗
Infection control team activities regarding vaccinations and education of employees, 4		✗	✓
Acknowledgment of updating relevant guidelines, 2	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗

✓, the number of questions for which the probability (shown in Table 3) was above the mean of probabilities for five domains for each question (the mean value of each row in Table 3) was higher than half of the number of questions in each domain; ✗, the number of questions for which the probability (shown in Table 3) was above the mean of probabilities for five domains for each question (the mean value of each row in Table 3) was lower than a half of the number of questions in each domain. For example, latent status 2 had 7 questions of which probabilities were higher than the mean probability of corresponding questions in the first domain “antimicrobial stewardship.” These 7 probabilities were written in bold. The number of these bold ones was 5, which was more than half of the number of questions in the domain “antimicrobial stewardship,” 8, then status 3 was assigned to “✓ “for the first domain

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