Differences upon admission and in hospital course of children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia with or without radiologically-confirmed pneumonia: a retrospective cohort study

Table 2 Significant differences during hospital course of children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia diagnosed on clinical grounds

Characteristics	Radiologically-confirmed pneumonia
	Yes	Normal CXR	P	No^d	P
D1^a	n = 109^b	n = 143^b		n = 174
Fever	29/86^c (33.7)	17/107^c (15.9)	0.004	25/131 (19.1)	0.015
Chest indrawing	13 (11.9)	31 (21.7)	0.043	39 (22.4)	0.027
D2^a	n = 109^b	n = 143^b
Fever	31/98^c (31.6)	16/119^c (13.4)	0.001	24/148 (16.2)	0.004
Without wheezers
D1^a
Fever	26/62 (41.9)	9/46 (19.6)	0.014	14/59 (23.7)	0.033
Chest indrawing	6/77 (7.8)	9/57 (15.8)	0.147	12/75 (16.0)	0.117
D2^a
Fever	28/69 (40.6)	10/50 (20.0)	0.017	15/68 (22.1)	0.020

Data are shown as n (%)
CXR indicates chest radiograph
^aD1 is the first day after aqueous penicillin G has been initiated (24 h of treatment), D2 is the second day after aqueous penicillin G has been initiated (48 h of treatment)
^bn = number of evaluated patients in each subgroup on the respective day of hospital course
^cDifferent denominators due to missing data
^dIncludes normal CXR plus CXR with atelectasis or peribronchial thickening

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