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. 2024 Jun 1;13:41. doi: 10.1186/s40249-024-01204-5

Table 8.

Potential factors for non-improvement at 7 days after starting treatment and for non-reporting of primary cases newly diagnosed between 2010 and 2020 in public hospitals in Mainland Portugal, according to logistic regression models to estimate crude and adjusted odds ratio values

a) Potential Risk Factor Univariate Multivariate
% in Sample Crude OR 95% CI Adjusted OR 95% CI P-value
Non-improvement at 7 days Male sex 68.5 3.88 [0.85–17.88] 2.66 [0.49–14.41] 0.257
Immunosuppressed 62.4 11.36 [1.47–90.91] 5.71 [0.65–50.0] 0.115
Chronic organ dysfunction 24.6 2.72 [0.93–7.94] 2.79 [0.65–12.05] 0.168
Acute kidney injury 15.2 3.82 [1.24–11.76] 1.37 [0.32–5.92] 0.670
Leucocyte count < 1500/µl 37.7 3.86 [1.24–12.01] 2.47 [0.62–9.76] 0.199
CRP > 100 mg/L 43.6 2.69 [0.93–7.75] 5.18 [1.19–22.22] 0.028
Coinfection/superinfection 41.5 3.17 [1.03–9.80] 1.62 [0.32–5.95] 0.468
Constant 77.713 < 0.001
Hosmer and Lemeshow Test 0.758
b) Potential Risk Factor Univariate Multivariate
% in Sample Crude OR 95% CI Adjusted OR 95% CI P-value
Non-reporting Age > 5 years old 17.5 2.78 [1.22–6.32] 4.07 [1.19–13.93] 0.026
Immunosuppressed 60.8 2.11 [1.14–3.92] 1.15 [0.46–2.87] 0.758
Region of hospital AML or Norte 64.9 3.22 [1.71–6.09] 3.91 [1.74–8.75] < 0.001
Secondary center 50.3 2.02 [1.13–3.60] 2.09 [1.03–4.27] 0.042
Non-improvement at 7 days 11.4 1.66 [0.60–4.63] 1.56 [0.50–4.86] 0.446
Constant 0.345 0.310
Hosmer and Lemeshow Test 0.354

OR Odds ratio, CI Confidence interval, CRP C-reactive protein, AML Área Metropolitana de Lisboa