Table 3.

Actual versus expected rates of outpatient failure (7-day secondary hospitalization or 30-day outpatient death) for each admission criteria among rule-concordant versus rule-discordant outpatients

	All patients			CAP only (N = 2,002)			HCAP only (N = 306)
	Outpatient failure of concordant discharges	Outpatient failure of discordant discharges	p-value	Outpatient failure of concordant discharges	Outpatient failure of discordant discharges	p-value	Outpatient failure of concordant discharges	Outpatient failure of discordant discharges	p-value
Actual	6.4% (N = 62/972)			5.5% (N = 50/903)			17.4% (N = 12/69)
Our admission criteria 1 (no altitude adjustment)	3.9% (N = 30/777)	16.4% (N = 32/195)	<0.001	3.8% (N = 28/736)	13.2% (N = 22/167)	<0.001	4.9% (N = 2/41)	35.7% (N = 10/28)	0.002
Our admission criteria 2 (altitude adjusted)	4.1% (N = 35/846)	21.4% (N = 27/126)	<0.001	4.1% (N = 33/802)	16.8% (N = 17/101)	<0.001	4.6% (N = 2/44)	40.0% (N = 10/25)	<0.001
CURB-65 ≥ 2	5.1% (N = 38/751)	10.9% (N = 24/221)	0.002	4.9% (N = 35/711)	7.8% (N = 15/192)	0.01	7.5% (N = 3/40)	31.0% (N = 9/29)	0.02
A-DROP ≥ 2	4.3% (N = 33/763)	13.9% (N = 29/209)	<0.001	10.6% (N = 31/724)	10.6% (N = 19/179)	0.001	5.1% (N = 2/39)	33.3% (N = 10/30)	0.003

Results are reported for all patients, CAP patients, and HCAP patients. CI = confidence interval.