Table 2.
Outcomes.
| Outcomes | All Patients (n = 193) |
Intervention (n = 110) |
Control (n = 83) |
p a |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical outcomes | ||||
| In-hospital mortality | 17 (8.8) | 4 (3.6) | 13 (15.7) | 0.0033 |
| Seven-day mortality | 14 (7.3) | 4 (3.6) | 10 (12.1) | 0.026 |
| Thirty-day mortality | 25 (13.0) | 8 (7.3) | 17 (20.5) | 0.007 |
| Mean length of stay (days) | 10.4 | 10.6 | 10.2 | 0.72 |
| Mean duration of antibiotics (days) | 27.7 | 28.3 | 27.0 | 0.57 |
| Time to definitive therapy (hours) | 17.2 | 11.7 | 24.5 | 0.0011 |
| Time to defervescence (hours) | 35.5 | 31.5 | 40.9 | 0.49 |
| Bundle compliance | ||||
| Overall compliance | 109 (56.5) | 76 (69.1) | 33 (39.8) | <0.001 |
| Infectious disease consult | 181 (93.4) | 108 (98.2) | 73 (88.0) | 0.003 |
| Appropriate definitive therapy | 161 (83.4) | 104 (94.5) | 57 (68.7) | <0.001 |
| Source identified | 154 (79.8) | 94 (85.5) | 60 (72.3) | 0.025 |
| Repeat blood cultures collected | 181 (93.8) | 110 (100) | 71 (85.5) | <0.001 |
| Echocardiogram performed | 161 (83.4) | 96 (87.3) | 65 (85.5) | 0.1 |
| Appropriate duration of antibiotics | 161 (83.4) | 99 (90) | 62 (74.7) | 0.005 |
Data are presented as number of patients (%) unless specified otherwise. Time points refer to time of culture collection as baseline. a p is for intervention vs. control.