Table 4 Appropriateness of antibiotic use among patients with community-acquired acute pyelonephritis
| Â | Optimal | Suboptimal | Inappropriate | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total (n = 119) | Appropriate duration (n = 62) | Prolonged antibiotic use (n = 57) | Total (n = 23) | Appropriate duration (n = 6) | Prolonged antibiotic use (n = 17) | Total (n = 10) | Appropriate duration (n = 4) | Prolonged antibiotic use (n = 6) | |
Patients who met intravenous to oral antibiotic switch criteria on hospital day 7 | 107 (89.9) | 56 (90.3) | 51 (89.5) | 16 (69.6) | 3 (50.0) | 13 (76.5) | 7 (70.0) | 3 (75.0) | 4 (66.7) |
  Change to oral antibiotics | 40 (33.6) | 25 (40.3) | 15 (26.3) | 2 (8.7) | 0 (0) | 2 (11.8) | 1 (10.0) | 1 (25.0) | 0 (0) |
  Maintenance of parenteral antibiotics | 67 (56.3) | 31 (50.0) | 36 (63.2) | 14 (60.9) | 3 (50.0) | 11 (64.7) | 6 (60.0) | 2 (50.0) | 4 (66.7) |
Patients who did not meet intravenous to oral antibiotic switch criteria on hospital day 7 | 12 (10.1) | 6 (9.7) | 6 (10.5) | 7 (30.4) | 3 (50.0) | 4 (23.5) | 3 (30.0) | 1 (25.0) | 2 (33.3) |