Table 2.

Patient demographics and characteristics by adherence to guideline-recommended treatment

Characteristic	Guideline-concordant treatment (n = 168)	Guideline-disconcordant treatment (n =108)	p-value
Mean age, years ± SD	59 ± 19	60 ± 18	0.55
Male	103 (61%)	72 (65%)	0.46
Nursing home resident	10 (6%)	8 (7%)	0.63
Hospitalization in the last 3 months	51 (30%)	30 (27%)	0.65
Mean C-reactive protein ± SD	135 ± 122	114 ± 112	0.16
Mean lactate ± SD	2.5 ± 1.4	2.3 ± 1.3	0.28
BC obtained	160 (95%)	100 (93%)	0.36
Bacteremia	32 (19%)	17 (16%)	0.48
Median (IQR) LOS (days)	6 (9)	7 (8)	0.90
30-day mortality	17 (10%)	10 (9%)	0.77
ED treatment by			<0.001
General surgery (16)	6 (4%)	10 (9%)
Orthopedics (2)	0 (0%)	2 (2%)
Urology (17)	17 (10%)	0 (0%)
Internal medicine (157)	109 (65%)	48 (44%)
Neurology (11)	10 (6%)	1 (1%)
Pulmonology (72)	22 (13%)	50 (45%)
Otolaryngology (1)	0 (0%)	1 (1%)

ED: emergency department, BC: blood culture, IQR: interquartile range, LOS: length of stay