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