Table 2.
Interventions among 6665 hospitalized patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis identified from a representative US database
| Diagnostic tests | |
| Chest HRCT | 3946 (59.2) |
| Echocardiogram | 749 (11.2) |
| Bronchoscopy | 440 (6.6) |
| Lung biopsy | 276 (4.1) |
| Medication usea | |
| Antibiotic | 5259 (78.9) |
| Parenteral heparin | 4549 (68.3) |
| Proton pump inhibitor | 4172 (62.6) |
| Diuretic | 3909 (58.6) |
| Oral or parenteral corticosteroid | 3850 (57.8) |
| Opiate | 3235 (48.5) |
| Statin | 3039 (45.6) |
| Aspirin | 2915 (43.7) |
| Oral anticoagulant | 1142 (17.1) |
| Mechanical ventilation | 664 (10.0) |
| Admission to ICU | 1869 (28.0) |
| Surgery | 208 (3.1) |
aMedications utilized in > 5% of patients are shown. HRCT, high-resolution computed tomography; ICU, intensive care unit