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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2012 Dec;40(12):3246–3250. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318260c7f8

Table 5.

Relative risk (RR) (95 % CI) for clinical parameters in patient with coinfections compared to patients without coinfections

% (n) % (n) RR (95% CI) p

Co-Infections
D-Dimer <4 μg/ml ≥4 μg/ml
None 66.7 (8) 33.3 (4) 1
Other 81.8 (9) 18.2 (2) 0.5 (0.1–2.4) 0.64
MSSA/MRSA 14.3 (1) 85.7 (6) 2.6 (1.1–6.0) 0.057
INR Ratio <1.5 Ratio ≥1.5
None 75.0 (9) 25.0 (3) 1
Other 81.8 (9) 18.2 (2) 0.7 (0.1–3.6) 1.00
MSSA/MRSA 37.5 (3) 62.5 (5) 2.5 (0.8–7.6) 0.17
PRISM III Score <10 Score ≥10
None 71.9 (23) 28.1 (9) 1
Other 72.7 (16) 27.3 (6) 1.0 (0.4–2.3) 1.00
MRSA/MSSA 33.3 (4) 66.7 (8) 2.4 (1.2–4.7) 0.035
DIC No Yes
None 90.6 (29) 9.4 (3) 1
Other 95.5 (21) 4.5 (1) 0.5 (0.05–4.4) 0.64
MSSA/MRSA 58.3 (7) 41.7 (5) 4.4 (1.3–15.8) 0.025

MSSA/MRSA, Methicillin-sensitive/resistant Staphylococcus aureus; INR, international normalized ratio; PRISM, Pediatric Risk of Mortality; DIC, disseminated intravascular coagulation; Fisher exact test; RR, relative risk; CI, confidence interval; INR, international normalized ratio; DIC disseminated intravascular coagulation