Prediction of delayed recovery from pediatric community-acquired pneumonia

Table 2 Duration of fever in relation to antibiotic treatment (amoxicillin vs. ampicillin) and treatment setting (inpatients vs. outpatients).

	Amoxicillin	Ampicillin	p-value	Inpatients	Outpatients	p-value
	(N = 59)*	(N = 21)		(N = 25)	(N = 69)
Hours (h) of fever	25.2 ± 18.6	13.4 ± 11.3	0.012	15.3 ± 13.6	25.8 ± 20.3	0.0056
<12 h	11 (18.6)	13 (61.9)		14 (56.0)	13 (18.8)
12-24 h	29 (49.5)	7 (33.3)	<0.0001†	9 (36.0)	33 (47.8)	0.0012§
>24 h	19 (32.2)	1 (4.8)		2 (8.0)	23 (33.3)

Data are presented as means ± SD or number (percentage).
Amoxicillin was administered orally, ampicillin intravenously.
* Four children with oral amoxicillin-clavulanic acid included.
† Age-adjusted comparison between ampicillin and amoxicillin groups: p = 0.0006; age-looking-setting-adjusted comparison between ampicillin and amoxicillin groups: p = 0.0018.
§ Age-adjusted comparison between inpatient and outpatient groups: p = 0.0058.

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