Plasma Procalcitonin Is Useful for Predicting the Severity of Acute Cholecystitis

Table 4

Relationship between PCT, age, cost, admission time, and length of hospital stay.

	PCT	Age	Cost	Admission time	Length of hospital stay
PCT	—	0.481; <0.001	0.299; 0.003	0.270; 0.008	0.189; 0.067
Age		—	0.413; <0.001	0.349; 0.001	0.219; 0.033
Cost			—	0.122; 0.238	0.717; <0.001
Length of hospital stay				—	0.014; 0.889

Spearman correlation test.