Table 1.

Initial treatment of subjects with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) presenting to seven emergency departments

	All CAP patients	CAP patients admitted to hospital		CAP patients treated as outpatients		Proportion of outpatients receiving IV antibiotics
Site	N	N	%	N	%	N	%a
A	669	124	18.5	545	81.5	58	10.6
B	1769	985	55.7	784	44.3	57	7.3
C	1003	590	58.8	413	41.2	20	4.8
D	828	328	39.6	500	60.4	14	2.8
E	460	153	33.3	307	66.7	5	1.6
F	871	393	45.1	478	54.9	12	2.5
G	915	430	47.0	485	53.0	7	1.4
Total	6515	3003	46.1	3512	53.9	173	4.9

^aPercentage is of those treated as outpatients.

Abbreviations: CAP, community-acquired pneumonia; IV, intravenous.