Prediction of 30-Day Mortality Using the Quick Pitt Bacteremia Score in Hospitalized Patients with Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection [Response to Letter]

Ching Su1 Department of Emergency Medicine, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City, 82445, Taiwan

I-Ting Tsai1 Department of Emergency Medicine, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City, 82445, Taiwan;2 School of Medicine, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chung-Hsu Lai2 School of Medicine, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;3 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City, 82445, Taiwan

Kuo-Hsuan Lin1 Department of Emergency Medicine, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City, 82445, Taiwan

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Chia‐Chi Chen2 School of Medicine, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;4 Department of Pathology, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City, 82445, Taiwan

Yin-Chou Hsu1 Department of Emergency Medicine, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City, 82445, Taiwan;2 School of Medicine, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;5 School of Chinese Medicine for Post Baccalaureate, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;6 School of Medicine for International Student, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;7 Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, TaiwanCorrespondence[email protected]

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Prediction of 30-Day Mortality Using the Quick Pitt Bacteremia Score in Hospitalized Patients with Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection [Letter]

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We thank Dr. Yang et al for their comments regarding our works.^Citation1 The aim of our study was to investigate the prognostic role of qPitt in patients with Klebsiella pneumoniae infection. The 30-day mortality discriminative ability of qPitt was excellent by using receiver operating characteristic curve method. By using the Youden index, the optimal cutoff value of qPitt in our study was 2, with sensitivity 0.83, specificity 0.79, respectively. Our finding regarding qPitt cutoff value for best prognosis discrimination ability was consistent with previous studies.^{Citation2,Citation3} Although not the aim of this study, we also provided the cutoff value of PBS for the reference: the PBS 4 had the best 30-day mortality prediction ability, with sensitivity 0.80, specificity 0.84, respectively. As Yang said, the cutoff value of PBS in our study was also in line with previous results.^{Citation1,Citation4} Again we express our great appreciation for their comments and the opportunity to give our response.

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