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.