Table 3.
Predictors of mortality in more than 65-year-old patients, N = 6729 (By stepwise)
| Comorbidity | step | Adjusted Odds ratio | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | (95%CI) | |||
| Chronic renal failure | 1 | 2.806 | 2.205 | 3.571 |
| Acute myocardial infarction | 2 | 4.58 | 3.135 | 6.691 |
| Intracerebral hemorrhage | 3 | 3.758 | 2.724 | 5.184 |
| Subarachnoid hemorrhage following injury | 4 | 3.937 | 2.891 | 5.363 |
| Tuberculosis of ureter, tubercle bacilli found | 5 | 3.573 | 2.282 | 5.594 |
| Heart failure | 6 | 1.863 | 1.463 | 2.371 |
| Subarachnoid hemorrhage | 7 | 8.654 | 4.473 | 16.742 |
| Duodenal ulcer, chronic or unspecified with perforation | 8 | 2.262 | 1.688 | 3.033 |
| Acute vascular insufficiency of intestine | 9 | 6.406 | 3.503 | 11.716 |
| Peritonitis | 10 | 9.242 | 3.872 | 22.063 |
| Endocrine disease | 11 | 0.656 | 0.559 | 0.768 |
| Age(mean,sd) | 12 | 1.024 | 1.015 | 1.034 |
| Malignant neoplasm of liver | 13 | 3.193 | 2.042 | 4.992 |
| Encounter for chemotherapy | 14 | 2.739 | 1.667 | 4.501 |
| Perforation of intestine | 15 | 2.683 | 1.705 | 4.222 |
| Cardiogenic shock | 16 | 1.963 | 1.388 | 2.776 |
| Fracture of base of skull, closed with subarchn | 17 | 6.619 | 2.812 | 15.58 |
| Sex(Male) | 18 | 0.762 | 0.659 | 0.881 |
| Unspecified cerebral artery occlusion with cerebral infarction | 19 | 1.514 | 1.221 | 1.877 |
| Hemorrhage of gastrointestinal tract | 20 | 1.903 | 1.291 | 2.805 |
| Secondary malignant neoplasm of skin | 21 | 3.328 | 1.787 | 6.199 |
| Malignant neoplasm of head of pancreas | 22 | 3.89 | 1.753 | 8.633 |
| Malignant neoplasm of pyloric antrum of stomach | 23 | 2.035 | 1.253 | 3.304 |
| Pneumonia, organism unspecified | 24 | 1.397 | 1.115 | 1.751 |
| Other and unspecified cerebral laceration | 25 | 3.051 | 1.524 | 6.109 |
| Hypertrophy (benign) of prostate | 26 | 0.78 | 0.645 | 0.943 |
| Gastric ulcer, chronic or unspecified with hemorrhage | 27 | 1.403 | 1.103 | 1.784 |
| Fracture of vault of skull, closed | 28 | 4.976 | 1.451 | 17.06 |
| Malignant neoplasm of upper third of esophagus | 29 | 3.391 | 1.315 | 8.742 |
| Empyema, without mention of fistula | 30 | 3.22 | 1.297 | 7.997 |
| Arterial embolism and thrombosis of lower extremity | 31 | 1.952 | 1.122 | 3.394 |
| Malignant neoplasm of female breast | 32 | 0.31 | 0.11 | 0.868 |
| Subdural hemorrhage | 33 | 0.47 | 0.244 | 0.903 |
| Gastric ulcer, chronic or unspecified with hemorrhage | 34 | 1.403 | 1.103 | 1.784 |
| Calculus of ureter | 35 | 0.621 | 0.403 | 0.959 |
| Necrotizing fasciitis | 36 | 1.591 | 1.052 | 2.407 |
| Fracture of intertrochanteric section of femur, closed | 37 | 1.285 | 1.026 | 1.61 |