Table 5 Duration of hospitalisation

From: Studying the burden of community-acquired pneumonia in adults aged ⩾50 years in primary health care: an observational study in rural Crete, Greece

 

Days in hospital a

P value

Gender

 

0.032

 Male

6.5 (2–20; 6)

 

 Female

8.0 (4–16; 7)

 

Season of CAP occurrence

 

0.001

 Winter

12 (7–20; 6)

 

 Other

7 (2–16; 4)

 

Malignancy

 

0.027

 Yes

17 (14–20; 6)

 

 No

7 (2–16; 6)

 

Asthma

 

0.089

 Yes

8 (7–16; 7)

 

 No

7 (2–20; 6)

 

Dyspnoea

 

0.067

 Yes

7.5 (3–20; 6)

 

 No

5 (2–8; 5)

 

Tachypnoea

 

0.051

 Yes

7 (3–20; 6)

 

 No

4 (2–7; 5)

 

Lung-percussion

 

0.081

 Abnormal

8 (4–16; 5)

 

 Normal

7 (2–20; 6)

 

PaO 2 (mg/dl)

 

0.040

 ⩽58.8

8 (4–16; 5)

 

 >58.8

6 (2–20; 4)

 
  1. Abbreviation: CAP, community-acquired pneumonia.
  2. aContinuous variables are presented as median (min—max; interquartile range).
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