Table 4.
Baseline characteristics of positive CDTB patients.
| Variable |
Odds
Ratio |
95% CI | P-Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extra-binomial variability due to ward | - | - | 0.610 |
| Sex | 0.081 | ||
| Females | Ref. | - | |
| Males | 0.84 | 0.69-1.02 | |
| Age, years | <0.001 | ||
| 0-64 | Ref. | - | |
| 65-79 | 1.43 | 1.10-1.87 | |
| >=80 | 1.93 | 1.49-2.49 | |
| Patients provenance | 0.856 | ||
| hospital | Ref. | - | |
| community | 0.97 | 0.69-1.36 | |
| Year of analysis | 0.098 | ||
| 2010 | Ref. | - | |
| 2011 | 0.71 | 0.47-1.06 | |
| 2012 | 0.65 | 0.45-0.96 | |
| 2013 | 0.80 | 0.56-1.14 | |
| 2014 | 0.75 | 0.53-1.06 | |
| 2015 | 0.52 | 0.32-0.84 | |
| Seasonality | 0.029 | ||
| SIN | 1.15 | 1.01-1.32 | |
| COS | 1.13 | 0.99-1.28 |
SIN, sine, COS, cosine, i.e., trigonometric components (see (Fig. 1))