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Table 3 Clinical outcomes in the modified intention-to-treatment (MITT) and validated per protocol (VPP) populations

From: Comparison of ceftriaxone plus macrolide and ampicillin/sulbactam plus macrolide in treatment for patients with community-acquired pneumonia without risk factors for aspiration: an open-label, quasi-randomized, controlled trial

 

CTRX

ABPC/SBT

Risk Difference % (95% CI)

p-value

MITT population, n

124

139

  

Treatment period, days±SD

7.8 ± 3.2

8.2 ± 3.7

 

0.245*

 Day 4, effective, n (%)

106 (88) (121 cases)

130 (96) (135 cases)

−8.7 (−15.4–-2.0)

0.011

 Day 7, effective, n (%)

105 (88) (120 cases)

126 (97) (130 cases)

−9.4 (−16.0–-2.8)

0.007

 EOT, effective, n (%)

108 (87)

130 (94)

−7.1 (−14.2–0.0)

0.055

 EOS, cure, n (%)

102 (83)

126 (91)

 

0.187

 EOS, relapse, n (%)

5 (4.0)

3 (2)

 

 EOS, failure, n (%)

17 (14)

10 (7)

 

 Death within 30 days, n (%)

4 (3)

0 (0)

3.2 (0.1–6.3)

0.048†

 VPP population, n

104

108

  

Treatment period, days±SD

7.9 ± 2.9

8.3 ± 3.3

 

0.387*

 Day 4, effective, n (%)

95 (91)

105 (97)

−5.9 (−12.1–0.4)

0.079†

 Day 7, effective, n (%)

94 (90)

105 (97)

−6.8 (−13.3–-0.4)

0.047†

 EOT, effective, n (%)

94 (90)

104 (96)

−5.9 (−12.6–0.8)

0.072†

 EOS, cure, n (%)

89 (86)

102 (94)

 

0.053

 EOS, relapse, n (%)

5 (5)

1 (1)

 

 EOS, failure, n (%)

10 (10)

5 (5)

 

 Death within 30 days, n (%)

1 (1)

0 (0)

1.0 (−0.9–2.8)

0.491†

  1. CTRX Ceftriaxone, ABPC/SBT Ampicillin/sulbactam, CI Confidence interval, EOT End of treatment, EOS End of study. Relapse was defined as cases with recurrent fever after day 7 after primarily being judged as improving by EOT. Comparisons were conducted using the chi-squared test unless otherwise indicated. *Student’s t-test. †Fisher’s exact test