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. 2015 Jul 10;15:70. doi: 10.1186/s12890-015-0066-3

Table 2.

Table represents association between IPF patient characteristics on hospital admission and performance of bronchoscopy with BAL. Two patients with missing data on BAL performance were excluded

Bronchoscopy with BAL done
Factor No (N = 46) Yes (N = 29) Total (N = 75) P-value
Gender 0.97a
 Female 22 (47.8 %) 14 (48.3 %) 36 (48.0 %)
 Male 24 (52.2 %) 15 (51.7 %) 39 (52.0 %)
Tobacco exposure 0.28a
 Yes 23 (48.9 %) 15 (62.5 %) 37 (53.6 %)
 No 23 (51.1 %) 9 (37.5 %) 32 (46.4 %)
Prior steroid use 0.85a
 No 26 (56.5 %) 13 (54.2 %) 39 (55.7 %)
 Yes 20 (43.5 %) 11 (45.8 %) 31 (44.3 %)
Prior cytotoxic agents <0.001b
 No 46 (100.0 %) 17 (73.9 %) 63 (91.3 %)
 Yes 0 (0.0 %) 6 (26.1 %) 6 (8.7 %)
Antibiotics on admission 0.46a
 No 35 (76.1 %) 17 (68.0 %) 52 (73.2 %)
 Yes 11 (23.9 %) 8 (32.0 %) 19 (26.8 %)
Fever on admission 0.99b
 No 43 (92.5 %) 23 (95.8 %) 60 (93.8 %)
 Yes 3 (7.5 %) 1 (4.2 %) 4 (6.3 %)
Tachycardia on admission 0.95a
 No 36 (74.4 %) 18 (75.0 %) 47 (74.6 %)
 Yes 10 (25.6 %) 6 (25.0 %) 16 (25.4 %)
Tachypnea on admission 0.37a
 No 16 (23.1 %) 8 (33.3 %) 17 (27.0 %)
 Yes 30 (76.9 %) 16 (66.7 %) 46 (73.0 %)
ICU care 0.70a
 No 29 (63.0 %) 17 (58.6 %) 46 (61.3 %)
 Yes 17 (37.0 %) 12 (41.4 %) 29 (38.7 %)
Procalcitonin 0.60c
 Mean (SD) 0.4 (0.8) 0.7 (0.6) 0.6 (0.7)
 Range (0.1–1.6) (0.1–1.7) (0.1–1.7)

aChi-Square

bFisher Exact

c T-Test