Research Article

Pediatric Residency Training amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Impact of Supervision and Clinical Practice Guidelines on Clinical and Financial Outcomes

Table 7

Path coefficients, mean, SD, values, values, and decision of hypotheses.

HypothesesPathBetaMeanSD values values95% CIDecision

1Pandemic status ⟶ clinical outcome-0.041-0.0410.0066.7860.000-0.054 to -0.030Supported
2Pandemic status ⟶ financial outcome0.0550.0550.0069.8390.0000.044 to 0.065Supported
3Pandemic status ⟶ patient’s condition0.0690.0700.00612.4210.0000.058 to 0.080Supported
4Pandemic status ⟶ nurse adequacy-0.621-0.6210.004139.9740.000-0.631 to -0.613Supported
5Pandemic status ⟶ supervision-0.103-0.1020.00519.3140.000-0.113 to -0.092Supported
6Pandemic status ⟶ clinical practice guidelines-0.006-0.0060.0051.1230.262-0.017 to 0.004Rejected
7Patient’s condition ⟶ supervision0.2200.2200.00546.3350.0000.211 to 0.229Supported
8Supervision ⟶ clinical outcome-0.118-0.1180.00524.8550.000-0.128 to -0.109Supported
9Supervision ⟶ financial outcome-0.150-0.1510.00721.9760.000-0.163 to -0.136Supported
10Clinical practice guidelines ⟶ clinical outcome-0.078-0.0780.00324.5500.000-0.084 to -0.072Supported
11Clinical practice guidelines ⟶ financial outcome-0.069-0.0690.00419.5080.000-0.076 to -0.062Supported
12Patient’s condition ⟶ clinical outcome0.4940.4940.00686.8680.0000.482 to 0.506Supported
13Patient’s condition ⟶ financial outcome-0.002-0.0010.0070.2630.793-0.015 to 0.010Rejected
14Nurse adequacy ⟶ clinical outcome0.0070.0070.0061.1450.253-0.004 to 0.018Rejected
15Nurse adequacy ⟶ financial outcome-0.034-0.0330.0074.7370.000-0.047 to -0.020Supported
16Clinical outcome ⟶ financial outcome0.6670.6660.01934.3400.0000.622 to 0.699Supported
17Pandemic CPG (CO) ⟶ clinical outcome-0.006-0.0060.0031.7350.083-0.012 to 0.001Rejected
18Pandemicsupervision (CO) ⟶ clinical outcome0.0400.0410.0058.8250.0000.032 to 0.049Supported
19PandemicCPG (FO) ⟶ financial outcome-0.022-0.0220.0029.3760.000-0.027 to -0.017Supported
20Pandemicsupervision(FO) ⟶ financial outcome-0.031-0.0310.0056.3860.000-0.041 to-0.023Supported

Note: CPG = clinical practice guidelines; CO = clinical outcome; FO = financial outcome.