Adherence to recommendations by infectious disease consultants and its influence on outcomes of intravenous antibiotic-treated hospitalized patients

Table 4 Clinical and microbiological outcome [n (%)] of patients included in the study

	Intervention				Non intervention
	Complete	Partial	Non adherence	Total
N	199	141	231	571	602
Length of hospitalization (days; mean ±SD)	24.1 ± 29.3	26.5 ± 24.3	20.2 ± 18.8	23.1 ± 24.3	20.3 ± 33.8
Clinical outcome
Cure + improvement	184 (92.5)	121 (85.8)	185 (80.1) ^a	490 (85.8)	493 (81.9) ^a
Death	4 (2.0)	5 (3.5)	12 (5.2)	21 (3.7)	30 (5.0)
Microbiological outcome
No. patients microbiologically evaluable^b	36 (18.1)	29 (20.6)	40 (17.3)	105 (18.4)	85 (14.1)
Eradication	25 (69.4)	11 (37.9)	8 (20.0) ^a	44 (41.9)	18 (21.2) ^a,c

^ap<0.001 versus complete adherence; ^bpatients with initial positive culture and at least one follow-up culture; ^cp<0.001 versus Total intervention.

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