Antibiotic Therapy and 48-Hour Mortality for Patients with Pneumonia

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Antibiotic Therapy and 48-Hour Mortality for Patients with Pneumonia Eric M. Mortensen, MD, MSc, Marcos I. Restrepo, MD, MSc, Antonio Anzueto, MD, Jacqueline A. Pugh, MD The American Journal of Medicine Volume 119, Issue 10, Pages 859-864 (October 2006) DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2006.04.017 Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Proportion of surviving patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia by use of guideline-concordant antibiotics versus non–guideline-concordant antibiotics after adjusting for the propensity score (P = .05). The American Journal of Medicine 2006 119, 859-864DOI: (10.1016/j.amjmed.2006.04.017) Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions