TABLE 3.

Management and clinical outcomes of patients with and without evidence of infection

	Infective	Non-infective	p-value
Antibiotics, inpatient	102 (100)	40 (90.9)	0.002
Systemic CS, inpatient	100 (98.0)	42 (95.5)	0.38
NIV	8 (7.8)	10 (22.7)	0.01
HDU/ICU	27 (26.4)	18 (40.1)	0.08
Mechanical ventilation	4 (3.9)	1 (2.5)	0.62
Length of stay days	5 (4–8)	5 (3–8)	0.2
Mortality at 6 months	10 (9.8)	5 (11.4)	0.89
Mortality at 12 months	14 (13.7)	8 (18.2)	0.49
Readmitted within 12 months	40 (39.2)	22 (50.0)	0.39
Time to readmission days	44.5 (18–195)	78 (34–246)	0.39

Data are presented as n (%) or median (interquartile range), unless otherwise stated. CS: corticosteroid; NIV: noninvasive ventilation; HDU: high-dependency unit; ICU: intensive care unit.