Estimation of clinical course using procalcitonin in pneumonia

With great interest, we read the study by Yan et al. [1] which investigated the role of procalcitonin (PCT) among bacteremic nosocomial pneumonia (NP) patients. Authors concluded that PCT could differentiate between gram-negative (GN) and gram-positive (GP) bloodstream infection, showing the c-statistic value of 0.706.
Source: Journal of Critical Care - Category: Intensive Care Authors: Source Type: research