Procalcitonin and procalcitonin kinetics for diagnosis and prognosis of intravascular catheter-related bloodstream infections in selected critically ill patients: a prospective observational study.

BMC Infect Dis · 2012 · PMC3502591 · PMID 23043618

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0.0020

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highly significantp = 0.002actually significant

A highly significant reduction of PCT concentration on D(1) was observed in both groups (p = 0.002 in controlled, p = 0.005 in not controlled).

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of marginal significancep = 0.078so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

In particular, for the group with proven CRBSI, post hoc analysis showed that the 25% elevation of marginal significance (p = 0.078) of PCT from D-4 to D-3, was followed by a stepwise statistically significant increase from D-3 to D0 (100% from D-3 to D-2, p = 0.006; 50% from D-2 to D-1, p < 0.001; 927% from D-1 to D0, p < 0.001).

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