Checking procalcitonin suitability for prognosis and antimicrobial therapy monitoring in burn patients

Burns & Trauma

Table 6 Comparison between survivors and non-survivors during three periods of stay (first week of stay, last week of stay, and first week after suspicion of sepsis)

Period	Survivors			Non-Survivors			Global difference
Period	p value^a	Kendall’s W	N	p value^a	Kendall’s W	N	p value^b
First week of stay	0.925	0.006	58	0.504	0.042	21	0.000*
Last week of stay	0.000*	0.162	67	0.050	0.095	22	0.000*
First week after suspicion of sepsis	0.000*	0.117	46	0.217	0.077	18	0.002*

Significant difference (*p value < 0.05)
^aFriedman test p value
^bThe minimum p value of all simultaneous Mann-Whitney U tests with Sidak correction

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