Table 2.

Enrollment of 51 of a total of 159 patients admitted to a medical high-dependency unit and reasons for exclusion, Blantyre, Malawi

No. patients	Reasons for exclusion
48	Non-respiratory diagnoses*
19	Non-pneumonic respiratory diagnoses†
8	Sputum smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis
33	Pneumonic diagnoses but unsuitable for bronchoscopy‡
51	Recruited

^*Non-respiratory diagnoses were cardiac disease (18), meningitis (6), tuberculous pericarditis (5), severe anemia (2), pyelonephritis (2), and other (15).

^†Non-pneumonic respiratory diagnoses were extra pulmonary tuberculosis (10), chronic airways disease (3), pleural sepsis (3), bronchiectasis (1), and malignancy (2).

^‡Unsuitable for bronchoscopy due to early death < 24 hours (15), hypoxia < 90% (6), confusion (2), refusal (2), cough (1), unavailability of staff (6), and under age (1).