Table 5.
Differences between patients whose time until CT was 6 days or less and those whose time until CT was more than 6 days
| TV | SE (%) |
SP (%) |
PPV (%) |
NPV (%) |
AC (%) |
Real early and late treatment groups (cases) | Viral clearance in the first 6 days (days) [median] | Duration of fever (≥ 37.5 °C or ≥ 37.0 °C) (days) [median] | Time duration until hospital discharge (days) [median] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radiological prediction | % GGO | 6 days or less | 8 ≤ | 73.7 (14/19) | 76.9 (10/13) | 82.4 (14/17) | 66.7 (10/15) | 75.0 (24/32) | 11 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| More than 6 days | 21 | 5 | 3 | 23 | ||||||||
| p value | N/A | N/A | 0.13 | 0.67 | 0.03 | |||||||
| % Consolidation | 6 days or less | < 0.33 | 94.4 (15/19) | 76.9 (10/13) | 83.3 (15/18) | 71.4 (10/14) | 78.1 (25/32) | 9 | 4 | 1.5 | 15 | |
| More than 6 days | 23 | 5 | 3 | 22.5 | ||||||||
| p value | N/A | N/A | 0.1 | 0.01 | 0.03 | |||||||
| Combined method | 6 days or less | 0.40 < | 94.7 (18/19) | 61.5 (8/13) | 78.3 (18/23) | 88.9 (8/9) | 81.3 (26/32) | 11 | 4 | 2 | 16 | |
| More than 6 days | 21 | 5 | 3.5 | 23 | ||||||||
| p value | N/A | N/A | 0.02 | 0.002 | 0.02 | |||||||
| CT disease severity score | 6 days or less | ≤ 5 | 73.7 (14/19) | 84.6 (11/13) | 87.5 (14/16) | 68.8 (11/16) | 78.1 (25/32) | 7 | 3 | 2.5 | 15 | |
| More than 6 days | 25 | 5 | 3.5 | 23 | ||||||||
| p value | N/A | N/A | 0.04 | 0.1 | 0.01 | |||||||
| Patients whose time until CT equal to or less than 6 days in early treatment group vs. patients assessed as time until CT more than 6 days in early treatment group and all patients in late treatment group | 6 days or less | N/A | 9 | 4 | 2 | 15 | ||||||
| More than 6 days | 23 | 5 | 3 | 23 | ||||||||
| p value | N/A | 0.01 | 0.15 | 0.0004 | ||||||||
TV threshold value, SE sensitivity, SP specificity, PPV positive predictive value, NPV negative predictive value, AC accuracy