The study compared the susceptibility of positive bacterial cultures in the ED antibiogram to those in the hospital-wide antibiogram.
While the frequencies of some pathogens in the ED and the hospital were similar, the results showed that E. coli was more common in ED patients while Enterococcus species and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are more common in hospitalized patients.
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