Table 6. Choice of antibiotics in nursing homes versus hospital to patients provided intravenous and oral antibiotics, by diagnosis.

	Iv antibiotics in nursing homes (n = 110)				Iv treatment in hospital (n = 84)				Total
	RTI	RTI + UTI	UTI	Other*	RTI	RTI+UTI	UTI	Other*
Benzylpenicillin	26 (34)	1 (10)	0	2 (18)	23 (49)	4 (19)	0	0	56 (29)
Broad spectrum penicillin	1 (1)	1 (10)	0	0	3 (6)	1 (5)	2 (15)	0	8 (4)
Cefalosporins	43 (57)	8 (80)	12 (92)	7 (64)	17 (36)	12 (57)	10 (77)	1 (33)	110 (57)
Other iv antibiotics**	2 (3)	0	1 (8)	0	0	1 (5)	0	0	4 (2)
Combinations***	4 (5)	0	0	2 (18)	4 (9)	3 (14)	1 (8)	2 (67)	16 (8)
Total	76 (100)	10 (100)	13 (100)	11 (100)	47 (100)	21 (100)	13 (100)	3 (100)	194 (100)
	Oral antibiotics in nursing homes (n = 44)				Oral antibiotics in hospital (n = 8)				Total
	RTI	RTI + UTI	UTI	Other*	RTI	RTI+UTI	UTI	Other*
Phenoxymetylpenicillin	6 (30)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6 (12)
Broad spectrum penicillin	10 (50)	1 (33)	8 (50)	2 (40)	1 (50)	0	2 (40)	0	24 (46)
Ciprofloxacin	1 (5)	0	4 (25)	0	0	1 (100)	3 (60)	0	9 (17)
Doksycyclin	3 (15)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3 (6)
Nitrofuradantin	0	0	2 (13)	0	0	0	0	0	2 (4)
Trimetoprim +/- sulfa	0	1 (33)	1 (6)	0	1 (50)	0	0	0	3 (6)
Other oral antibiotics****	0	1 (33)	1 (6)	3 (60)	0	0	0	0	5 (10)
Total	20 (100)	3 (100)	16 (100)	5 (100)	2 (100)	1 (100)	5 (100)	0	52 (100)

*Other: skin, gastrointestinal and unspecified infections;

**Other iv antibiotics: ciprofloxacin (n = 1), meropenem (n = 3);

***Combinations: cefotaksim + benzylpenicillin/metronidazol/meropenem/klindamycin (n = 9), gentamicin + benzylpenicillin/ampicillin (n = 5), klindamycin + benzylpenicillin (n = 2);

****Other oral antibiotics: cefotaksim (n = 1), erythromycin (n = 1), metronidazol (n = 2), vancomycin (n = 1).