Table 3.

General results PP and microbiological culture

	All patients	On antibiotics when tested		p-value
		No	Yes
Results of PP (n = 60)				0.151
Negative	22/60 (36.7%)	3/16 (18.8%)	19/44 (43.2%)
Monomicrobial	21/60 (35%)	6/16 (37.5%)	15/44 (34.1%)
Polymicrobial	17/60 (28.3%)	7/16 (43.8%)	10/44 (22.7%)
Results from culture (n = 36)				0.710
Negative	12/36 (33.3%)	2/9 (22.2%)	10/27 (37.1%)
Monomicrobial	15/36 (41.7%)	4/9 (44.4%)	11/27 (40.7%)
Polymicrobial	9/36 (25%)	3/9 (33.3%)	6/27 (22.2%)
Comparison PP and culture (n = 36)				–
Non-concordant	5/36 (13.9%)	–	–
Partially concordant	11/36 (30.6%)	–	–
Completely concordant	20/36 (55.6%)	–	–

PP pneumonia panel