Table 2.

Main analysis to compare primary and secondary outcomes for the patients who received 1 and 2 g of ceftriaxone for the treatment of community-onset pneumonia

	1 g (n = 175)	2 g (n = 175)	absolute difference	p value
Primary Outcome
Cure rate (%)	94.6	93.1	1.5 (−3.1, 6.0)	0.009 for non-inferiority, 0.572 for superiority
Secondary Outcomes
Length of hospital stay (days)	17	26	–9 (−4, −14)	< 0.001
Duration of antibiotic treatment (days)	8	10	–2 (−1, −3)	0.002
In-hospital mortality (%)	4.7	4.0	0.7 (−3.6, 5.0)	0.740