Table 4 Mean duration in days of intravenous, oral and total antibiotic therapy. Due to its prolonged therapy, M. tuberculosis spondylodiscitis is not respected in this analysis.

From: Implementation of a multidisciplinary infections conference improves the treatment of spondylodiscitis

 

With infections conference

Without infections conference

p-value

Intravenous antibiotic therapy

26 ± 19

18 ± 8

 < 0.001

Oral antibiotic therapy

40 ± 33

87 ± 25

 < 0.001

Total antibiotic therapy

66 ± 31

104 ± 31

 < 0.001

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