Table 5

Patients studied – site of infection

Infecting organism
Total no. of patients in this category
Number of patients suitable for switch to oral therapy (% of patients with this infecting organism)
Number of patients suitable for switch to oral therapy and early discharge (% of patients with this infecting organism)

Coagulase negative staph
44
13 (30%)
9 (21%)
Enterococcus
17
5 (29%)
4 (24%)
MRSA
110
63 (57%)
38 (36%)
Other organisms
7
3 (43%)
3 (43%)
Culture negative
33
9 (27%)
8 (24%)


Total = 211
93
62

Desai et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2006 6:94   doi:10.1186/1471-2334-6-94