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. 2015 Oct 7;61(Suppl 4):S372–S379. doi: 10.1093/cid/civ730

Table 3.

Country-Pooled Odds Ratios of Children Compared With Adults

Study Site Outpatients
Inpatients
Pooled ORa (95% CI) Breslow–Day P Value Pooled ORa (95% CI) Breslow–Day P Value
Pretreatment
 Antibiotics 0.96 (.81–1.13) .8671 1.37 (.99–1.87) .4160
 Antimalarials 0.77 (.62–.94) .7705 1.13 (.83–1.55) .0258
 Analgesics 0.99 (.88–1.11) .0001 1.59 (1.28–1.97) .5934
Blood culture results
 Contamination 2.06 (1.68–2.52) .0096 1.49 (1.12–2.00) .3190
 All-cause BSI 1.11 (.83–1.49) .2944 0.98 (.62–1.54) .6567
Salmonella Typhi 42 (.48–4.20) .0269 0.52 (.15–1.80) .2454
 iNTS 1.91 (.57–6.44) .1874 3.88 (.32–46.57) .6498

Abbreviations: BSI, bloodstream infection; CI, confidence interval; iNTS, invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella; OR, odds ratio.

a The pooled Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel OR is adjusted for country by pooling the country-specific ORs into 1 summary measure.