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Table 3 Clinical outcomes per pathogen of 505 patients hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia

From: Microbial aetiology, outcomes, and costs of hospitalisation for community-acquired pneumonia; an observational analysis

 

Length of hospital stay (IQR)

ICU admission (%)

In-hospital mortality (%)

30-day mortality (%)

One-year mortality (%)

Streptococcus pneumoniae (n = 124)

8.5 (6.5-14.9)

10 (8.1)

4 (3.2)

4 (3.2)

12 (9.7)

Coxiella burnetii (n = 28)

5.5 (3.5-7.5)

0

0

1 (3.6)

1 (3.6)

Haemophilus Influenzae (n = 27)

9.0 (7.5-14.0)

2 (7.4)

0

0

3 (11.1)

Legionella pneumophila (n = 20)

11.0 (6.5-17.0)

3 (15.0)

1 (5.0)

1 (5.0)

2 (10.0)

Chlamydophila species (n = 16)

8.5 (6.6-13.3)

2 (12.5)

0

0

1 (6.3)

Mycoplasma pneumoniae (n = 9)

5.0 (4.5-7.3)

0

0

0

0

Staphylococcus aureus (n = 9)

10.5 (7.3-14.5)

1 (11.1)

3 (33.3)

3 (33.3)

4 (44.4)

Other pathogen (n = 27)

8.0 (5.0-15.8)

7 (25.9)

2 (7.4)

2 (7.4)

9 (33.3)

Viral pathogen (n = 35)

8.5 (6.3-13.5)

1 (2.9)

2 (5.7)

3 (8.6)

6 (17.1)

No pathogen found (n = 210)

8.5 (5.5-12.6)

12 (5.7)

12 (5.7)

12 (5.7)

35 (16.7)

  1. Data are presented as number (%) or median (IQR). For calculation of median length of stay patients who died during admission where excluded from the analysis.
  2. Abbreviations: ICU intensive care unit, IQR interquartile range, n number.