Table 4.

Relationships between CIRP and mortality, minor criteria, SOFA and PSI scores, PCT, IL-6 and CRP (n = 404)

rs	PCT	IL-6	CRP	minor criteria	SOFA score	PSI score	Mortality
CIRP	0.875	0.883	0.872	0.550	0.843	0.952	0.402
PCT		0.897	0.896	0.426	0.666	0.909	0.319
IL-6			0.907	0.325	0.673	0.920	0.287
CRP				0.367	0.665	0.917	0.289
minor criteria					0.390	0.661	0.184
SOFA score						0.803	0.377
PSI score							0.387

CIRP Cold-inducible RNA-binding protein, SOFA Sequential organ failure assessment, PSI Pneumonia severity index, PCT Procalcitonin, IL-6 Interleukin-6, CRP C-reactive protein, r_s: Rank correlation coefficient

All p values were less than 0.001