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.
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*** |