Table 2.
Compliance with guideline recommendations
| Compliance indicator | No. (%) of patients | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All n = 150 |
Grade I cholecystitis n = 104 |
Grade II and III cholecystitis n = 46 |
||
| Documentation of severity grading | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | — |
| Compliance with antibiotic recommendations* | 27 (18.0) | 19 (18.3) | 8 (17.4) | 0.90 |
| Inappropriate metronidazole administration | 68 (55.3)† | 40 (47.1)‡ | 28 (73.7)‡ | 0.013 |
| No antibiotics given | 48 (39.0) | 41 (48.2) | 7 (18.4) | 0.004 |
| Time to operation < 72 h* | 129 (86.0) | 88 (84.6) | 41 (89.1) | 0.61 |
| Treated at an ACS hospital | 91 (91.0) | 62 (59.6) | 29 (63.0) | 0.72 |
| Treated at a non-ACS hospital | 38 (76.0) | 26 (25.0) | 12 (26.1) | 1.00 |
| p value | 0.025 | 0.06 | 0.10 | |
ACS = acute care surgery.
*
Fisher exact test.
†
Reported as the percentage of all study patients who received metronidazole inappropriately.
‡
Reported as the percentage of patients with grade I cholecystitis or with grade II or III cholecystitis who received metronidazole inappropriately, respectively.