Research Article
A Prospective, Randomized Comparison of Duodenoscope Reprocessing Surveillance Methods
Table 3
Comparison of surveillance time between the CDC and UWHC protocols.
| | | Mean (SD) | Mean difference (95% CI) | t-statistic (df) | valuea | | CDC (n = 129) | UWHC (n = 119) |
| | Sampling (min) | 7.28 (2.61) | 8.04 (2.28) | 0.76 (−1.38, −0.15) | −2.45 (245.28) | 0.015 | | Processing (min) | 27.35 (10.36) | 5.11 (2.56) | 22.25 (20.39, 24.11) | 23.63 (144.77) | <0.001 |
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aIndependent Student’s t test.
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