Table 2.
Association between compliance with Ghana STGs for ambulatory pneumonia management and patients’ clinical parameters
| Variable | Total, n (%) | Compliance with STGs |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| yes, n (%) | no, n (%) | |||
| Guideline adherence | 1929 | 627 (32.5) | 1302 (67.5) | |
| Number of additional antibiotics | ||||
| none | 1636 (84.81) | 623 (38.1) | 1013 (61.9) | 0.000 |
| one | 289 (14.98) | 4 (1.4) | 285 (98.6) | |
| two | 4 (0.21) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (100.0) | |
| Duration of antibiotics | 0.000 | |||
| 1–7 days | 372 (19.28) | 203 (54.57) | 169 (45.43) | |
| 8–15 days | 1557 (80.72) | 424 (27.23) | 1133 (72.77) | |
| Previous exposure to antibiotic documented | 0.653 | |||
| yes | 42 (2.18) | 15 (35.71) | 27 (64.29) | |
| no | 1887 (97.82) | 612 (32.43) | 1275 (67.57) | |
| CURB-65 documentation | 0.488 | |||
| yes | 1 (0.05) | 0 (0) | 1 (100) | |
| no | 1928 (99.95) | 627 (32.52) | 1301 (67.48) | |
| Respiratory symptoms complained of | 0.000* | |||
| none | 368 (19.08) | 90 (24.46) | 278 (75.54) | |
| cough | 1482 (76.83) | 503 (33.94) | 979 (66.06) | |
| productive cough | 77 (3.99) | 33 (42.86) | 44 (57.14) | |
| nasal congestion | 2 (0.10) | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | |
| Temperature recorded | 0.000 | |||
| yes | 946 (49.04) | 373 (39.43) | 573 (60.57) | |
| no | 983 (50.96) | 254 (25.84) | 729 (74.16) | |
| Blood pressure recorded | 0.000 | |||
| yes | 1021 (52.93) | 247 (24.19) | 774 (74.81) | |
| no | 908 (47.07) | 380 (41.85) | 528 (58.15) | |
| Heart rate recorded | 0.000 | |||
| yes | 721 (37.38) | 188 (26.07) | 533 (73.93) | |
| no | 1208 (62.62) | 439 (36.34) | 769 (63.66) | |
| Respiratory rate recorded | 0.276 | |||
| yes | 141 (7.31) | 40 (28.37) | 101 (71.63) | |
| no | 1788 (92.69) | 587 (32.83) | 1201 (67.17) | |
| Chest X-ray requested | 0.000 | |||
| yes | 694 (35.98) | 181 (26.08) | 513 (73.92) | |
| no | 1235 (64.02) | 446 (36.11) | 789 (63.89) | |
| Full blood count requested | 0.358 | |||
| yes | 11 (0.57) | 5 (45.45) | 6 (54.55) | |
| no | 1918 (99.43) | 622 (32.43) | 1296 (67.57) | |
Variables with P values highlighted in bold showed statistically significant association with adherence to guideline after χ2 test and those with an asterisk (*) were obtained from Fisher’s exact test.