Serum procalcitonin in the diagnosis of pneumonia in the neurosurgical intensive care unit.

Neurosurg Rev · 2025 · PMC12011963 · PMID 40257674

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0.0010

closest p · 0.0× alpha

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highly significantp < 0.001actually significant

The chi-square test showed a highly significant correlation between the presence of HAP and a serum PCT value of ≥ 0.095 ( p < 0.001) (Fig. 3 A).

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.089so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Conversely, elevated CRP (> 5 mg/L) showed a sensitivity of 95.7% and a specificity of 25.0%, though the association did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.089), likely due to the limited sample size.

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