Prescription of targeted and adequate antibiotics
Prespecified analysis of targeted antibiotic treatment and exploratory analyses of adequate antibiotics were based on positive culture results from 290 specimens after exclusion of one sample missing from the culture analysis. We identified 68 (23%) bacterial agents from 55 (19%) patients. Targeted treatment was used significantly more often in the POC-PCR compared with the SCO group at both 4 h and 48 h but not at day 5 (