Table 3 Route of administration for antibiotics in hospitalized (H-CAP) and not-hospitalized (notH-CAP) patients before and after educational course
From: Monitoring adherence to guidelines of antibiotic use in pediatric pneumonia: the MAREA study
| Â | Route of administration for antibiotics | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Oral [No (%)] | Parenteral [No (%)] | Before vs. after | H-CAP vs. notH-CAP |
Prescriptions for the whole study population (No. 400) | 268 (67.00) | 132 (33.00%) | Â | Â |
 Before educational course (No. 246) | 160 (65.04) | 86 (34.96) | 0.29 |  |
 After educational course (No. 154) | 108 (70.13) | 46 (29.87) |  | |
Prescriptions for hospitalized patients (No. 268) | 144 (53.73) | 124 (46.27) |  | < .0001 |
 Before educational course (No. 182) | 97 (53.30) | 85 (46.70) | 0.84 | < .001 |
 After educational course (No. 86) | 47 (54.65) | 39 (45.35) | < .001 | |
Prescriptions for not-hospitalized patients (No. 132) | 124 (93.94) | 8 (6.06) | Â | Â |
 Before educational course (No. 64) | 63 (98.44) | 1 (1.56) | 0.06 |  |
 After educational course (No.68) | 61 (89.71) | 7 (10.29) |  | |