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