Of 878 total patients, about 10% received famotidine. Mean age of the whole group was 67, and 55% were men. About 22% of patients died during hospitalization, 27% required mechanical ventilation, and 12% met criteria for "combined death and intubation." ...snip... Use of famotidine was associated with reduced risk of hospital mortality (OR 0.366, 95% CI 0.155-0.862, P=0.021), as well as a lower risk of the combined death or intubation endpoint (OR 0.495, 95% CI 0.228-0.965, P=0.04).