Inadequate treatment of ventilator-associated and hospital-acquired pneumonia: risk factors and impact on outcomes.

The pneumonia related mortality also did not reach statistical significance by day 28 after the diagnosis of pneumonia in either HAP or VAP [25.2% (30/119) with adequate initial AB versus 39.5% (32/81) with inadequate initial AB in HAP patients (p = 0.519) (Figure 1 ) and 75.0% (30/40) with adequate initial AB versus 71.2% (42/59) with inadequate initial AB in VAP patients (p = 0.847) (Figure 2 )].

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