Table 5.

Comparison of Clinical Outcomes in Patients without a Change from the Initial Empiric Antibiotics

Clinical outcome	The initial antibiotics sensitive to culture (n=38)	The initial antibiotics not sensitive to culture (n=31)	p-value
30-day mortality	2 (5)	0	0.195
Length of hospital stay, day	28.6±4.0	19.6±4.5	0.136
Organ dysfunction	5 (13)	8 (26)	0.181
Duration of fever, day	3.9±0.5	3.1±0.6	0.363
Length of HCU stay, day	1.3±0.5	1.6±0.5	0.208

Data are presented as number (%) or mean±SD.

HCU, high care unit.