Table 3.
Country-Pooled Odds Ratios of Children Compared With Adults
| Study Site | Outpatients |
Inpatients |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.