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 |
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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 |