Table 3.

Multivariate analysis of hazardous drinking or alcohol dependence and pneumonia severity index score

	β-coefficient	95 % Confidence interval	p value
Hazardous drinking	10.12	2.95–17.29	0.006
Homelessness	12.06	5.52–18.61	<0.001
MSM* status	10.28	3.46–17.10	0.003
Smoking	−5.62	−12.23–1.00	0.096
No annual income	−0.63	−6.59–5.32	0.834
Recent CD4 count	−0.001	−0.03–0.03	0.971
HAARTa	3.52	−3.31–10.35	0.311
Alcohol dependence	12.89	2.59–23.18	0.014
Homelessness	11.06	4.54–17.59	0.001
MSM	10.27	3.45–17.10	0.003
Smoking	−4.49	−10.93–1.94	0.170
No annual income	−1.45	−7.46–4.55	0.633
Recent CD4 count	0.001	−0.03–0.03	0.967
HAART	2.37	−4.67–9.41	0.508

Bold values indicate statistically significant independent predictors of PSI score ≥ 8

^*MSM man who has sex with men

^aHAART highly active antiretroviral therapy