Effect of intervention on the administration of the prescribed treatment in the first 48 hours of admission.

aAnalysis restricted to patients alive after 2 days, crystalline penicillin prescribed as four times a day and not stopped during the first 2 days of admission.bChi square test.cKruskal Wallis test.dAnalysis restricted to patients with evidence that intravenous fluid (IVF) was prescribed on the ward and were alive after one day of admission.eAnalysis restricted to patients who had feed prescribed and were alive after 1 day of admission.