Mismatch rates are the proportion of total patient days spent in the mismatch cohort out of all patient days (mismatch cohort plus Acute Care plus IICU Care) for a given department in the specified time period (created by the authors).
| Department | Baseline mismatch rate | Post-intervention mismatch rate | Change in % mismatch patients | P value | |
| Medical services | Hospital Medicine | 18% | 10% | −8 | <0.0001 |
| Cardiovascular Medicine | 25% | 16% | −9 | <0.0001 | |
| Pulmonary and Critical Care | 22% | 9% | −13 | <0.0001 | |
| Oncology | 8% | 5% | −3 | <0.0001 | |
| Surgical services | General Surgery | 7% | 4% | −3% | <0.0001 |
| Neurosurgery | 10% | 8% | −2 | 0.0838 | |
| Orthopaedic Surgery | 3% | 1% | −2 | <0.0001 | |
| Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery | 17% | 12% | −5 | 0.0902 | |
| Total | 13% | 7% | −6 | <0.0001 | |
Boldface indicates statistically significant values at 0.05 level.
IICU, intermediate intensive care unit.