Table 2 Clinical factors, predisposing risk factors, severity factors, treatment factors, and outcome in the whole cohort^a of patients with pleural infection according to initial antibiotic regimen

n=, (%)

125 (29)

215 (50)

89 (21)

429

Age (years)

61.4

63.9

60.7

62.6

Pneumonic (%)

90.4

89.8

88.8

89.7

Nosocomial (%)

8.8^#

16.2^#

15.7

14

Predisposing risk factors (%)

53.6^#

70.7^#

68.6

65.6

Antibiotics before hospital admittance (%)

40.8

45.6

42.7

43

Severely ill (%)

8.8

5.1

31.5

11.6

Thoracocentesis delay, median /mean (days)

3 / 5.5

1 / 3.1

1 / 3.9

1 / 4.0

Antibiotics before thoracocentesi (%)

87.2^#

74.9^#

77

77.6

Antibiotic treatment, median (days)

38.5

35

35.5

35

Pleural drainage delay > 2 days (%)

38.4

29.8

29.2

31.6

Fibrinolysis intrapleural (%)

32

30.7

28.1

30.2

ICU admittance (%)

4.8

1.9

21.3

6.6

Mortality 30-day (%)

4.8

7.9

14.6

8.7

Mortality 90-day (%)

8

10.7

22.5

13

Surgery referral (%)

11.2

10.7

14.6

11.7

LOS, median

16

16

19

17