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. 2023 Dec 5;8(6):e705. doi: 10.1097/pq9.0000000000000705

Table 1.

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion criteria Age >2 months to 18 years
Admitted to hospital
Discharge diagnosis ICD-10 codes for CAP, UTI, or SSTI*
Prescribed antibiotics within first 24 hours of presentation
Treated with full course of antibiotics for one of the above diagnoses
Exclusion criteria Immunocompromised
Ill-appearing
Diagnosis of Cystic Fibrosis
Patients with SSTI involving face, eyes, perineum; animal bites and postoperative wound infections
Patients treated for >1 infection
Anyone started on antibiotics for presumed infection first as outpatient or transferred from referring hospital
*

ICD-10 codes: UTI: N39.0; N15.1; N30.0; N30.9; N10; CAP: J12.0, J12.1, J12.2, J12.89, J15.4, J15.0, J13, J18.1, J15.3, J15.8, J15.6, J15.211, J15.212, J16.8, A37.91, J18.0, J18.9, J11.00, J12.9; J15.9; SSTI: L03.xx, L02.xx; N61