Clinical Utility of Rapid Pathogen Identification for Detecting the Causative Organisms in Sepsis: A Single-Center Study in Korea

Table 3

Antimicrobials used from the time of blood draw to susceptibility reporting.

Variable	Preintervention group ()	Postintervention group ()
Glycopeptide	15 (38)	30 (52)	0.17
Carbapenem	16 (40)	28 (48)	0.42
Third-generation cephalosporin	22 (55)	16 (28)	0.006
Antipseudomonal penicillin	8 (20)	18 (31)	0.22
Quinolone	9 (23)	14 (24)	0.85
Fourth-generation cephalosporin	4 (10)	5 (9)	>0.99
Linezolid	1 (3)	4 (7)	0.65
Aminoglycoside	2 (5)	2 (3)	>0.99
Colistin	2 (5)	0	0.16
Tigecycline	0	2 (3)	0.51

The data are presented as number (percentage) of patients. values indicate the results of comparing the preintervention and postintervention groups by using chi-squared or Fisher’s exact tests.