Figure 1.
Enrollment process for patients admitted to the medical intensive care unit due to pneumonia, with reasons for exclusion.
Table 1.
Demographics, underlying diseases/conditions, and clinical characteristics of patients with pneumonia.
Table 2.
Identities of pathogens in patients with pneumonia.
Figure 2.
Distributions of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid total white blood cell (WBC) count, BAL fluid percentage of neutrophils, serum procalcitonin concentration, and serum C-reactive protein concentration.
(A) total WBC count in BAL fluid, (B) percentage of neutrophils in BAL fluid, (C) serum procalcitonin concentration, and (D) serum C-reactive protein concentration. Horizontal bars indicate median values.
Table 3.
Bronchoalveolar lavage total and differential cell counts (%) in patients with pneumonia.
Figure 3.
Receiver-operating curves of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL) total white blood cell count, BAL fluid percentage of neutrophils, serum procalcitonin concentration, and serum C-reactive protein concentration for differentiating between bacterial pneumonia and viral pneumonia.
Table 4.
Accuracy of bacterial pneumonia diagnosis in patients with pneumonia.
Figure 4.
Correlation between bronchoalveolar lavage total white blood cell count and APACHE II score.
Table 5.
Multiple logistic-regression analysis of predictors for the diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia.