CRP and bacterial infectious disease with sepsis: Additionally, definitive carbapenem treatment was more likely to be administered to patients with a higher Pitt bacteremia score (2.7 ± 2.9 versus 1.6 ± 2.1, p = 0.02) and a higher CRP level (20.6 ± 11.2 versus 16.6 ± 8.7, p = 0.04) (Table 4).