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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the patients receiving antifungal therapy with an echinocandin according to local guidelines

From: Empirical antifungal therapy with an echinocandin in critically-ill patients: prospective evaluation of a pragmatic Candida score-based strategy in one medical ICU

 

Empirical therapy (n = 39)

Definite therapy (n = 12)

p

Age (years)

 

65.9 (13.3)

64.6 (17.5)

0.77

Gender (men,%)

 

25 (64.1)

7 (58.3)

0.72

SAPS II

 

49.1 (17.1)

49.8 (8.1)

0.89

Admission diagnosis

   

0.17

 

Sepsis (N. [%])

20 (51.2)

4 (33.3)

 
 

Respiratory distress (N. [%])

15 (38.4)

8 (66.6)

 
 

Other (N. [%])

4 (10.2)

0 (0)

 

Underlying disease(s)

  
 

Diabetes mellitus (N. [%])

12 (30.7)

1 (8.3)

0.11

 

Cardiac failure (N. [%])

15 (38.4)

2 (16.6)

0.16

 

Chronic lung disease (N. [%])

12 (30.7)

1 (8.3)

0.11

 

Cirrhosis (N. [%])

5 (12.8)

3 (25)

0.31

 

Chronic renal failure (N. [%])

3 (7.7)

1 (8.3)

0.94

 

Cancer (N. [%])

6 (15.4)

1 (8.3)

0.53

 

Hemopathy (N. [%])

3 (7.7)

0 (0)

0.32

 

Immunosuppression (N. [%])

9 (23.1)

1 (8.3)

0.26

 

Transplantation (N. [%])

3 (7.7)

1 (8.3)

0.94

  1. SAPS II: simplified acute physiologic score II.