Table 6.
Outcome of patients who did and did not receive adequate antimicrobial therapy
| |
|
HAP (n = 218) |
|
|
VAP (n = 130) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adequate (n = 128) | Inadequate (n = 90) | p | Adequate (n = 44) | Inadequate (n = 86) | p | |
| In hospital mortality (n,%) |
32 (25.8) |
35 (38.9) |
0.056 |
32 (72.7) |
56 (65.1) |
0.497 |
| Length of total hospital stay |
19.61 ± 14.40 |
24.22 ± 13.70 |
0.001 |
28.57 ± 23.66 |
45.00 ± 49.30 |
0.0091 |
| Length of stay after the diagnosis of pneumonia |
12.52 ± 11.14 |
15.70 ± 11.21 |
0.010 |
16.45 ± 18.23 |
30.71 ± 46.21 |
0.034 |
| Duration of intubation |
|
|
|
19.11 ± 19.74 |
32.14 ± 49.51 |
0.050 |
| Resolution of fever and other symptoms | 2.40 ± 2.91 | 4.96 ± 7.79 | <0.001 | 5.70 ± 5.50 | 9.09 ± 10.33 | 0.044 |