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. 2021 Oct 20;13(10):e18916. doi: 10.7759/cureus.18916

Table 4. Comparison of patients who did not receive any adequate treatment and those who received adequate treatment in terms of 14th and 30th-day mortality rates.

*Each group was compared with the patient group who "did not receive any adequate treatment".

**For 14th-day mortality

***For 30th-day mortality

Patient groups 14th-day mortality n (%) 30th-day mortality n (%) P-value*
Patients who did not receive any adequate treatment (n=25) 20 (80) 20 (80)  
Those whose adequate empirical treatment was started (n=32) 12 (37.5) 16 (50) 0.001** 0.02***
Patients on whom inadequate empirical treatment was started and received adequate treatment during follow-up (n=54) 8 (14.8) 20 (37) <0.001** <0.001***
Patients on whom inadequate empirical treatment was started or those who did not have any empirical treatment and received adequate treatment during follow-up (n=83) 14 (16.9) 28 (33.7) <0.001** <0.001***
Patients who received adequate treatment (n=115) 26 (22.6) 44 (38.3) <0.001** <0.001***