Fig 1.
Typical output of the BreathSpec instrument using a breath sample from a confirmed bacterial infected patient.
Table 1.
Case definitions.
Fig 2.
RTI = respiratory tract infection.
Table 2.
Characteristics of study participants grouped by any bacterial infection (confirmed plus probable—Labelled “aggregate bacterial”) and all other participants.
Categories for which statistical significance testing for between group differences yields p <0.05 are shown in bold. BP = blood pressure; NEWS = national early warning score; T = temperature; SpO2 = oxygen saturation %; Cr = creatinine; CRP = C reactive protein; CXR = chest x-ray.
Table 3.
Microbiologic samples sent.
Fig 3.
Receiver operator characteristic curve for final diagnostic model.
AUC = area under the curve.