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Table 3 Outcome analyses

From: Pleural infection: a retrospective study of clinical outcome and the correlation to known etiology, co-morbidity and treatment factors

 

90-day mortality

30-day mortality

Uni-variate

Multi-variate

Uni-variate

Multi-variate

OR

95% CI

OR

95% CI

OR

95% CI

OR

95% CI

Age

–

–

1.06

1.04–1.09

–

–

1.06

1.03–1.10

Intrapleural fibrinolysis

0.35

0.16–0.72

0.35

0.14–0.77

0.17

0.05–0.58

0.19

0.04–0.54

Nosocomial infection

2.3

1.16–4.5

  

0.94

0.35–2.5

  

Pleural drainage delay > 2 days

0.40

0.20–0.83

0.33

0.15–0.68

0.52

0.23–1.2

0.33

0.16–0.92

Surgery referral

2.0

0.97–4.2

3.1

1.2–7.3

0.64

0.19–2.2

  

Predisposing Risk factors

5.7

2.2–14.5

4.2

1.7–12.6

4.4

1.5–12.7

3.3

1.3–11.9

  1. The correlation of 90-day and 30-day mortality to hypothesized important categorical factors among 437 patients with pleural infection, in uni-variate and multivariate analyses
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