From: Incidence and outcome of inappropriate in-hospital empiric antibiotics for severe infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Reference
Time of mortality assessment
AAT mortality rate
IAAT mortality rate
Significant differences
Luna et al., 2006 [34]
28Â days
29.17
63.46
0.007
Chen et al., 2013 [55]
9.09
38.04
0.001
Tseng et al., 2012 [51]
60Â days
28.17
55.43
0.023
Kim et al., 2006 [8]
12Â weeks
28.10
38.46
NS