Table 3 Percentage of Patients Receiving Each Process of Care Stratified by Age*
From: Quality of care in elder emergency department patients with pneumonia: a prospective cohort study
Age <65 years | Age ≥65 years compared by decade | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age 65–74 years | Age 75–84 years | Age ≥85 years | p value by decade ≥65 years | ||||||
Process: | (n = 810) | (n = 262) | (n = 209) | (n = 89) | |||||
ED antibiotic administration | 89.4 | (86.8–94.1) | 94.3 | (91.1–96.9) | 94.3 | (90.9–97.1) | 93.3 | (87.7–98.3) | 0.941 |
ED antibiotics within 4 hours | 65.3 | (61.7–68.3) | 67.9 | (62.3–73.7) | 67.0 | (60.5–73.5) | 70.8 | (61.6–80.4) | 0.816 |
ED blood cultures | 68.9 | (65.9–72.1) | 65.6 | (60.3–71.7) | 68.4 | (61.7–74.3) | 74.2 | (65.0–83.0) | 0.335 |
ED oxygenation assessment | 94.0 | (92.4–95.6) | 95.8 | (93.6–98.4) | 96.6 | (94.6–99.4) | 98.9 | (96.8–100) | 0.488 |