TABLE 4.
Factors associated with 30-day all-cause mortality in multivariate logistic regression analysis, subdivided by sensitivity analysis category
| Sensitivity analysis category and factor | Odds ratio (95% confidence interval) |
|---|---|
| Patients with APACHE II ≥ 14a | |
| Pneumonia as infectious source | 4.23 (1.26–14.25) |
| Linezolid as definitive therapy | 3.26 (1.07–9.9) |
| Exclusion of patients with central venous catheter infectionb | |
| Pneumonia as infectious source | 4.86 (1.35–17.42) |
| Unknown source of infection | 3.77 (1.41–10.07) |
| APACHE II (1-point increments) | 1.18 (1.07–1.30) |
a
APACHE II, acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II. R-squared value, 0.237. Hosmer-Lemeshow c statistic, 0.380.
b
R-squared value, 0.410. Hosmer-Lemeshow c statistic, 0.770.