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Table 5 Frequency of appropriateness of antibiotic use in children with pneumonia requiring or not requiring hospitalization

From: Monitoring adherence to guidelines of antibiotic use in pediatric pneumonia: the MAREA study

 

Children with pneumonia (No. 400 prescriptions)

Hospitalized CAP (No. 268 prescriptions)

Not hospitalized CAP (No. 132 prescriptions)

P value

Single parameter appropriateness

  Indication [No. (%)]

400 (100.00)

–

–

–

  Choice of antibiotic [No. (%)]

370 (92.50)

258 (96.27)

112 (84.85)

< .001

  Duration [No. (%)]

242/389a (62.21)

162/261a (62.07)

80/128a (62.50)

.93

  Dose [No. (%)]

324/399a (81.20)

235/267a (88.01)

89 (67.42)

< .001

Global appropriateness [No. (%)]

175/389a (44.99)

132/261 (50.57)

43/128 (33.59)

.0016

  1. awhen data are lacking, the total number of data available are reported