Table 5. Adjustment for the effect of external cooling for patients with sepsis by treating temperature as continuous variable (maximum body temperature during ICU stay).

	Odds Ratio	Lower limit of 95% CI	Upper limit of 95% CI	P>z
Maximum temperature (with each 1 degree increase)	1.16	1.09	1.24	<0.001
External cooling	1.51	1.23	1.84	<0.001
Age	1.02	1.01	1.02	<0.001
SOFA	1.22	1.20	1.24	<0.001
Sex	1.12	1.01	1.25	0.040
Care unit (MICU as the reference)
SICU	0.66	0.51	0.86	0.002
CCU	0.95	0.83	1.09	0.498
CSRU	0.46	0.40	0.53	<0.001
Lactate (normal as the reference)
Hyperlactamia (>2 mmol/l)	1.31	1.15	1.48	<0.001
Missing values	0.48	0.40	0.56	<0.001

The model contains no interaction terms.