Table 3 Mortality, crude and adjusted relative risk of death at 7 and 30 days for all patients, and after exclusion of deaths occurring on the day of admission.
| All deaths | No treatment | Any insulin regime | Relative risk* | Adjusted relative risk | 95% CI | p Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | |||||
| 7 days | 290/1761 | 16.5 | 101/868 | 11.6 | 1.42 | 1.56 | 1.22 to 2.0 | <0.001 |
| 30 days | 389/1761 | 22.1 | 137/868 | 15.8 | 1.40 | 1.51 | 1.22 to 1.86 | <0.001 |
| Deaths on day of admission excluded | ||||||||
| 1–7 days | 228/1682 | 13.6 | 80/841 | 9.5 | 1.43 | 1.43 | 1.09 to 1.89 | 0.011 |
| 1–30 days | 327/1682 | 19.4 | 116/841 | 13.8 | 1.41 | 1.41 | 1.11 to 1.78 | 0.004 |
*Relative risk; percentage dying in the untreated group divided by percentage dying in insulin‐treated group.