Table 2.
Hospital admissions and death. Values are numbers (percentages)
| Factors | No antibiotics (n=7332) | Immediate antibiotics (n=17 628) | Delayed antibiotics (n=3819) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admitted, no death | Admitted, death | Admitted, no death | Admitted, death | Death, not admitted | Admitted, no deaths | Admitted, death | |||
| LRTI or URTI | 18 (0.25) | 0 (0.00) | 98 (0.56) | 4 (0.02) | 3 (0.02) | 11 (0.29) | 0 (0.00) | ||
| Cardiovascular or cerebrovascular event | 0 (0.00) | 1 (0.01) | 15 (0.09) | 2 (0.01) | 5 (0.03) | 1 (0.03) | 0 (0.00) | ||
| Infections | 2 (0.03) | 0 (0.00) | 8 (0.05) | 1 (0.01) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (0.03) | 0 (0.00) | ||
| Cancer | 3 (0.04) | 0 (0.00) | 7 (0.04) | 1 (0.01) | 5 (0.03) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (0.03) | ||
| Other | 5 (0.07) | 0 (0.00) | 10 (0.06) | 4 (0.02) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (0.03) | 0 (0.00) | ||
| No reason given | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 6 (0.03) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | ||
LRTI=lower respiratory tract infection; URTI=upper respiratory tract infection.
Data exclude those with pneumonia judged to be present clinically at the index consultation and those admitted on the same day as the index consultation; admissions and deaths were not exclusive categories.