An antimicrobial stewardship program improves antimicrobial treatment by culture site and the quality of antimicrobial prescribing in critically ill patients

Table 3 Treatment of sterile versus nonsterile sites: per patient analysis

	Before ASP	After ASP	P value
Patients	139	130
Patients with only positive sterile cultures	71	56
Patients treated	50 (70%)	51 (91%)	0.0082
Patients with both positive sterile and positive nonsterile cultures	15	12
Patients treated	10 (67%)	5 (42%)	0.3632
Patients with only positive nonsterile cultures	53	62
Patients treated	50 (94%)	30 (48%)	0.0001

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