Table 3.
Comparisons between patients with and without positive blood culture.
| Positive blood cultures | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No-n = 80 | Yes-n = 47 | ||
| Mean [SD] | Mean [SD] | p-value | |
| Age | 67.3 [12.1] | 69.2 [13.1] | 0.304 |
| Leucocyte cell count (cc/mm3) | 11,473.6 [6,064.8] | 11,084.3 [9,599.1] | 0.179 |
| CRP at the admission | 159.0 [100.3] | 183.5 [129.7] | 0.472 |
| PCT at the admission (ng/ml) | 4.8 [13.8] | 14.3 [26.4] | 0.023 |
| CRP/PCT | 455.3 [810.8] | 306.7 [796.3] | 0.029 |
| n (%) | n (%) | p-value | |
| Gender | 0.212 | ||
| Female | 29 (36.3) | 12 (25.5) | |
| Male | 51 (63.8) | 35 (74.5) | |
| Antibiotic treatment at home | 1.000 | ||
| No | 73 (93.6) | 43 (93.5) | |
| Yes | 5 (6.4) | 3 (6.5) | |
| Metastatic cancer | 0.024 | ||
| No | 7 (8.9) | 11 (23.4) | |
| Yes | 72 (91.1) | 36 (76.6) | |
| Severe neutropenia | 0.530 | ||
| No | 78 (97.5) | 47 (100.0) | |
| Yes | 2 (2.5) | 0 (0.0) | |
CRP, C-reactive protein; PCT, Procalcitonin.
Values in bold mean for statistically significant values.