Table 3. Time to empiric prescriptions and discontinuation of empiric therapy- MALDI vs. VITEK^*.

Testing Modality Outcomes	MALDI (number of cultures)	VITEK (Number of Cultures)	Mean Differences in hours (95% CI, p-value)
Time to Empiric Prescription- hours	50.34 (129)	66.71 (98)	16.37 (10.05 to 22.69, p<0.001)
Time to Empiric Therapy Discontinuation–hours	58.21 (132)	68.39 (120)	10.19 (3.32 to 17.06, p = 0.04)

*All times are with respect to date of culture collection, unless indicated otherwise.