Table 2.
Outcomes in Early Infectious Diseases Consult and Standard Care Groups
| Total (N = 248) |
Early ID Consult (N = 111) |
Standard Care (N = 137) |
P valuea | P value for time-to-eventb | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-hospital mortality, n (%) | 79 (31.9) | 27 (24.3) | 52 (38.0) | .02 | |
| In-hospital mortality or discharge to hospice related to sepsis, n (%) | 84 (33.9) | 28 (25.2) | 56 (40.9) | .01 | |
| Appropriate antibiotics, n (%) | 202 (81.5) | 91 (82.0) | 111 (81.0) | .85 | .84 |
| Effective antibiotics, n (%) | 246 (99.2) | 110 (99.1) | 136 (99.3) | 1.00 | .15 |
| Confirmed infection diagnosis, n (%) | 202 (81.5) | 91 (82.0) | 111 (81.0) | .85 | .62 |
| Antibiotic de-escalation, n (%) | 152 (61.3) | 72 (64.9) | 80 (58.4) | .30 | .07 |
| Days of antibiotic therapy, median (IQR) | 8.0 (4.5, 12.0) | 7.0 (5.0, 12.0) | 8.0 (4.0, 12.0) | .72 | |
| Hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection, n (%) (n = 1 missing) |
9 (3.6) | 5 (4.5) | 4 (2.9) | .74 |
Bold values indicate those that are statistically significant.
Abbreviations: ID, infectious diseases; IQR, interquartile range.
a χ 2 test, Fisher exact test, or Wilcoxon rank sum test.
b Log-rank test.