Table 1. Multi-variable Cox regression model for the hazard of post-discharge mortality associated with different clinical syndromes.

Risk factor	Survived or exited during180 day follow-up(N = 3630)	Died during 180day follow-up(N = 105)	Multivariate Coxhazard ratio (95% CI)	p-value
Age in months a	18.0 (13.4)	15.7 (11.0)	0.98 (0.96 to 0.996)	0.02
Sepsis with CSM b	134 (3.7%)	33 (31.4%)	18.4 (11.3 to 30.0)	<0.001
Meningitis with CSM b	16 (0.4%)	3 (2.9%)d	13.7 (4.2 to 44.7)	<0.001
Pneumonia with CSM b	150 (4.1%)	16 (15.2%)	8.1 (4.4 to 14.8)	<0.001
Meningitis without CSM b	335 (9.2%)	9 (8.6%)	2.6 (1.2 to 5.5)	0.01
Sepsis without CSM b	468 (12.9%)	12 (11.4%)	2.2 (1.1 to 4.3)	0.02
Pneumonia without CSM b	2,527 (69.6%)	32 (30.5%)	1.00	-

^a Mean (Standard Deviation).

^b (CSM) Clinically severe malnutrition defined as visible wasting of the buttocks, characteristic skin or hair changes, or bilateral pedal oedema.