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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Med Med Res. 2014 Jan 1;4(1):481–487. doi: 10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5444

Table 2. Odds ratio for increased length of hospital stay (>15 days) associated with clinical variables in patients undergoing colorectal resection (n=196).

Univariate analysis Multivariate analysis

Odds
Ratio
95% C.I P * Odds
Ratio
95% C.I P **
Age 1.031 0.996 – 1.067 0.087
Sex 0.804 0.409 – 1.582 0.528
Operation performed 1.035 0.786 – 1.364 0.806
Stage of disease 1.349 0.939 – 1.940 0.106
Pre-operative Haemoglobin 1.057 0.905 – 1.235 0.482
Pre-operative White cell count 1.049 0.979 – 1.123 0.174
Pre-operative serum albumin 0.949 0.906 – 0.995 0.031
  >34.5 g/l 0.472 0.243 – 0.918 0.027
Pre-operative neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio (NLR) 1.072 1.003 – 1.147 0.041
  >4.3 1.664 0.831 – 3.332 0.151
Emergency procedure 1.667 0.694 – 4.004 0.253
*

Simple logistic regression analysis

**

Multivariate logistic regression analysis using the backward conditional model