Table 5.
Factors associated with inappropriateness of thromboprophylaxis.
| Variable | Category | Inappropriateness of thromboprophylaxis | COR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI) |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appropriate | Inappropriate | |||||
| Sex | Female | 69 (63.9%) | 39 (36.1%) | 1.565 (0.862-2.841) | 1.061 (0.464- 2.430) | 0.888 |
| Male | 72 (73.5%) | 26 (26.5%) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
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| Age | 18-40 | 77 (72.0%) | 30 (28.0%) | 0.487 (0.223-1.064) | 0.354 (0.071- 1.757) | 0.204 |
| 41-64 | 44 (69.8%) | 19 (30.2%) | 0.540 (0.231-1.262) | 0.215 (0.042- 1.111) | 0.067 | |
| >=65 | 20 (55.6%) | 16 (44.4%) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
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| CNS disorder | No | 127(69.8%) | 55 (30.2%) | 0.606 (0.254-1.449) | 0.910 (0.254- 3.259) | 0.884 |
| Yes | 14 (58.3%) | 10 (41.7%) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
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| Infectious disease | No | 43 (60.6%) | 28 (39.4%) | 1.725 (0.939-3.168) | 1.053 (0.459- 2.415) | 0.903 |
| Yes | 98 (72.6%) | 37 (27.4%) | 1,00 | 1.00 | ||
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| Critically ill | No | 113(85.0%) | 20 (15.0%) | 0.110 (0.056-0.215) | 0.766 (0.272- 2.160) | 0.615 |
| Yes | 28 (38.4%) | 45 (61.6%) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
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| Reduced Mobility | No | 117(72.2%) | 45 (27.8%) | 0.462 (0.232-0.916) | 2.373 (0.919- 6.131) | 0.074 |
| Yes | 24 (54.5%) | 20 (45.5%) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
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| Age>=70 years | No | 127 (69.0%) | 57 (31.0%) | 0.785 (0.312-1.977) | 6.173 (0.960-39.679) | 0.055 |
| Yes | 14 (63.6%) | 8 (36.4%) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
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| Heart or Respiratory Failure | No | 109 (71.2%) | 44 (28.8%) | 0.615 (0.320-1.181) | 1.175 (0.468- 2.952) | 0.731 |
| Yes | 32 (60.4%) | 21 (39.6%) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
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| Risk of the patient for thromboembolism | High | 40 (40.8%) | 58 (59.2%) | 20.921 (8.805- 49.713) | 31.67(8.518-117.72) | 0.000∗ |
| Low | 101 (93.5%) | 7 (6.5%) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
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| Thrombocytopenia OR coagulopathy | No | 117 (64.6%) | 64 (35.4%) | 13.128 (1.736- 99.307) | 25.17 (2.862- 221.30) | 0.004∗ |
| Yes | 24 (96.0%) | 1 (4.0%) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
COR: Crude Odds Ratio; AOR: Adjusted Odds Ratio; CI: Confidence Interval.