Table 5.
Antibiotics use identified in medical charts
| All medical records (N=388) | Medical record status
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Documented pneumonia diagnosis (N=311) | No documented pneumonia diagnosis (N=77) | |||||
| Antibiotics (n, %) | ||||||
| Azithromycin | 97 | 25.0% | 90 | 28.9% | 7 | 9.1% |
| Clarithromycin | 9 | 2.3% | 9 | 2.9% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Erythromycin | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Doxycycline | 11 | 2.8% | 10 | 3.2% | 1 | 1.3% |
| Ciprofloxacin | 22 | 5.7% | 20 | 6.4% | 2 | 2.6% |
| Gemifloxacin | 1 | 0.3% | 1 | 0.3% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Gatifloxacin | 1 | 0.3% | 1 | 0.3% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Levofloxacin | 100 | 25.8% | 93 | 29.9% | 7 | 9.1% |
| Moxifloxacin | 60 | 15.5% | 51 | 16.4% | 9 | 11.7% |
| Sparfloxacin | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Trovafloxacin | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Ceftriaxone | 94 | 24.2% | 88 | 28.3% | 6 | 7.8% |
| Amoxicillin | 1 | 0.3% | 1 | 0.3% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Amoxicillin with clavulanate | 10 | 2.6% | 8 | 2.6% | 2 | 2.6% |
| Ampicillin | 1 | 0.3% | 1 | 0.3% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Patients with ≥1 antibiotics prescribed | 275 | 70.9% | 248 | 79.7% | 27 | 35.1% |