Table 4 Initial antibiotics selected based on PCGS versus those that would have been chosen under the Japanese guidelines
|  | Point-of-care Gram stain (N = 34) | Japanese guidelines (N = 34) | p value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GPC (N = 23) | GNR (N = 8) | False-negative (N = 3) | Total | Immunocompetent | Immunocompromised (N = 17) | Total |  | ||
Age < 50 (N = 7) | Age≥50 (N = 10) | ||||||||
Ampicillin/Penicillin G | 10/1 | 4/0 | 1/0 | 16 | 0 | 5/0 | 8/0 | 13 | 0.62 |
Cefotaxime/Ceftriaxone | 17/6 | 5/1 | 3/0 | 32 | 0 | 3/2 | 0 | 5 |  < 0.001* |
Ceftazidime | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0.027* |
Vancomycin | 18 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 10 | 17 | 27 | 0.18 |
Meropenem | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 19 |  < 0.001* |
Clindamycin | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 |