TABLE 5.

Demographics, antibiotic days, stool tests, and imaging studies in GI panel patients versus historical controls

Variablea	Value for patient group		P value
	GI panel (n = 241)	Historical controls (n = 594)
No. (%) of males	122 (50.6)	286 (48.2)
Age (yr), mean (range)	41.37 (0–93)	41.66 (0–102)
No. (%) of patients of pediatric age	61 (24.3)	147 (24.7)
No. of additional stool tests (95% CL)	0.58	3.02 (2.89–3.14)	0.0001
No. of antibiotic days (95% CL)	1.73 (1.41–2.04)	2.12 (1.89–2.35)	0.06
No. of imaging studies (95% CL)	0.18 (0.10–0.26)	0.39 (0.31–0.48)	0.0002
Order to result time (h) (range)	8.94 (1.44–82.8)	54.75 (30.48–209.52)	<0.0001

^aCL, confidence limit.