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Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 2014 Jan 10;164(4):775–780. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.11.038

Table 2.

Immature:total neutrophil ratio within 24h of HRC index spike

	I:T HRC Display	I:T Non-Display
All	0.16 ± 0.15	0.19 ± 0.21
Antibiotics started	0.18 ± 0.16	0.22 ± 0.24
Sepsis, blood culture positive	0.26 ± 0.20	0.24 ± 0.25
Clinical sepsis	0.17 ± 0.10	0.26 ± 0.23
Sepsis ruled out	0.11 ± 0.10	0.09 ± 0.08
Other infection or NEC	0.23 ± 0.20	0.27 ± 0.26
Antibiotics not started	0.07 ± 0.07^*	0.10 ± 0.05^**
No association	0.10 ± 0.07	0.14 ± 0.19
Respiratory deterioration	0.03 ± 0.03	0.08 ± 0.05

p < 0.01 versus antibiotics started HRC display

^**

p = 0.06 versus antibiotics started non-display