Research Article
Procalcitonin Levels in Gram-Positive, Gram-Negative, and Fungal Bloodstream Infections
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics of the 1,949 patients included in the study.
| Variable | Values |
| Males | 1,150 (59%) | Females | 799 (41%) | Age (years) | 74 (IQR 62–83)* | Ward of hospitalization | | Medical | 1,735 (89%) | Surgical | 179 (9.2%) | Intensive Care Unit | 35 (1.8%) | Antimicrobial therapy before sampling | 1,553 (79.7%) | Blood culture | | Negative | 1,286 (66%) | Contaminated | 72 (3.7%) | Monomicrobial | 586 (30.6%) | Polymicrobial | 5 (0.3%) |
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Median value and interquartile range (IQR).
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