Fig 1.

Flow diagram of patients with cSSTIs. a, This includes patients who met the inclusion/exclusion criteria. Originally, we included randomly selected patients hospitalized in 2007. To increase the sample size, we later added patients who had positive cultures from December 2005 to October 2008. b, Culture obtained at any time during hospitalization. c, Four patients had missing pathogen information and were excluded from the analysis within 48 h; one had missing pathogen information and was excluded from the analysis within 24 h. “Appropriate” refers to appropriate initial antibiotic therapy.