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. 2012 Apr 24;31(10):2693–2701. doi: 10.1007/s10096-012-1616-8

Table 3.

Risk factors significantly associated with severe in-hospital complication in the multivariate analyses (N = 618)

Risk factors β parameter Odds ratio (95 % CI) p-value Weight
Intercept −4.91
Age (years)
 >45 vs. ≤45 0.76 2.1 (1.1–4.2) 0.03 1
Sex
 Male vs. female 0.88 2.4 (1.3–4.4) 0.004 1
No. of comorbidities
 ≥3 vs. <3 0.80 2.2 (1.2–44) 0.02 1
Pneumonia 0.65 1.9 (1.1–3.5) 0.03 1
Confusion 1.35 3.9 (1.6–9.1) 0.002 2
Dyspnea 1.50 4.5 (1.95–11) 0.0009 2
AUC 0.77
Hosmer–Lemeshow p-valuea 0.9618

CI, confidence interval; β parameter = estimated β coefficient; AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve

All risk factors were examined jointly

aA significant value for the Hosmer–Lemeshow statistic indicates a significant deviation between predicted and observed outcomes