Table 2.

Hospital-level processes of care and empiric antibiotic treatment of children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. Values represent the median, interquartile range, and range of the hospital median values.

	Median Percent [IQR]	Range
Chest Radiograph	73.8 (68.9–81.0)	54.0–90.1
Laboratory Testing
Complete blood count	66.5 (52.5–74.0)	29.1–91.7
Blood culture	51.8 (43.4–64.1)	0–78.7
Serum electrolytes	32.1 (21.5–38.9)	0–67.6
Viral studies	22.6 (18.4–39.6)	6.1–64.6
C-reactive protein	9 (4.9–18.0)	1.3–71.9
Arterial blood gas	6 (3.5–10.2)	1.3–17.0
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate	4.8 (3.1–6.3)	1.7–10.1
Antibiotic Therapy
Cephalosporin alone	43.7 (35.1–47.4)	21.2–62.4
Cephalosporin + macrolide	19.9 (16.6–25.4)	7.8–41.8
Cephalosporin + vancomycin/clindamycin	13.7 (9.7–18.5)	4.1–29.5
Cephalosporin + vancomycin/clindamycin + macrolide	5.8 (4.2–7.9)	1.5–14.0
Macrolide alone	4.2 (2.4–6.2)	0.5–19.6
Other	5.6 (3.8–6.0)	2.2–13.3
Penicillin/aminopenicillin alone	2.5 (1.9–4.9)	0.0–27.7
Penicillin/aminopenicillin + macrolide	1 (0.5–2.3)	0.0–27.7