Table 4.

Results of the generalized linear model with log-link and identity distribution.

Item	Parameter	Co-efficient	Standard error	95% Confidence interval (CI)		Z-value	Pr>|Z|
Intercept		6.4430	0.0640	6.3176	6.5683	100.74	<0.0001
Treatment modality	Nasal clip	−0.2748	0.0650	−0.4023	−0.1474	−4.23	<0.0001
	No treatment	−0.9752	0.1351	−1.2401	−0.7104	−7.22	<0.0001
	Other treatment	−0.7523	0.0907	−0.9301	−0.5745	−8.29	<0.0001
	Silver nitrate	−0.2391	0.0373	−0.3123	−0.1659	−6.40	<0.0001
	Vaseline	0.0062	0.0505	−0.0929	0.1053	0.12	0.9024
	Merocel®	Reference
Gender	Male	0.0564	0.0309	−0.0041	0.1169	1.83	0.0675
	Female	Reference
Co-morbid condition	At least 1 condition	0.0527	0.0410	−0.0276	0.1331	1.29	0.1981
	No condition	Reference
Age		0.0010	0.0010	−0.0009	0.0029	1.06	0.2907
Concomitant medication	At least 1 medication	0.0272	0.0444	−0.0599	0.1143	0.61	0.5405
	No medication	Reference
Type of epistaxis	Recurrent	−0.0694	0.0486	−0.1647	0.0259	−1.43	0.1533
	Initial	Reference
Quasi-Akaike information criterion	268.61