Fig 1.
Flowchart of patients with CAP.
PSI I-II indicate Pneumonia Severity Index risk classes I and II; CAP, community-acquired pneumonia; PCT, procalcitonin. 1Those cases were protocol violations, and were excluded from the study. 2One patient was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis; another patient was diagnosed with pulmonary embolism.
Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the patients and established etiological diagnosis.
Table 2.
Etiological agents identified by treatment group.
Table 3.
Short-term and long-term outcome measures.
Table 4.
Comparison between the historical control and the study group.