Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette

Table 6 Spearman’s correlation between RISC and laboratory/clinical data in infants with community acquired pneumonia

From: Diagnostic and predictive value of Respiratory Index of Severity in Children (RISC) scoring system in community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective cross sectional study

	RISC	Age	RD	HR	TLC	PICU	MV
RD	r = 0.64^* p = 0.001
HR		r = -0.61^* p = 0.001
RR		r = -0.82^* p = 0.001		r = 0.54^* p = 0.001
HB(%)		r = 0.2^* p = 0.016
CRP	r = 0.17^* p = 0.04			r = 0.18^* p = 0.02	r = 0.38^* p = 0.001
PICU	r = 0.7^* p = 0.001		r = 0.87^* p = 0.001
MV	r = 0.6^* p = 0.001		r = 0.7^* p = 0.001			r = 0.73^* p = 0.001
Mortality	r = 0.34* p = 0.001		r = 0.34^* p = 0.001			r = 0.36^* p = 0.001	r = 0.48^* p = 0.001

^*Significant at p<0.05, r correlation coefficient

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