Valuable prognostic indicators for severe burn sepsis with inhalation lesion: age, platelet count, and procalcitonin

Table 5 Prognostic value of various indexes in severe burn patients with sepsis by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves

Indexes	AUC	P	95% CI	Cutoff	Sensitivity	Specificity
Age (years)	0.673	0.044	0.522–0.865	38	0.682	0.687
PLT at diagnosis of sepsis (× 10⁹/L)	0.888	0.000	0.762–1.014	150	0.842	0.937
PLT at 1-week post-diagnosis of sepsis (× 10⁹/L)	0.911	0.002	1.790–1.031	161	0.786	0.875
PCT at admission (ng/mL)	0.700	0.142	0.455–0.945	10.3	0.444	0.900
PCT at diagnosis of sepsis (ng/mL)	0.652	0.104	0.448–0.857	2.0	0.667	0.643
PCT at 1-week post-diagnosis of sepsis (ng/mL)	0.745	0.012	0.586–0.905	2.4	0.750	0.697

AUC area under the curve, CI confidence interval, PLT platelet count, PCT procalcitonin

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