Table 3.

The effect of patient age, illness duration, vomiting and wheeze on risk of hospitalisation, according to present participants (OR_GPs) and STARWAVe (OR_STARWAVe)

Predictor	ORGPs	ORSTARWAVe
Age (<2 years)	1.49 [1.14 to 1.95]*	3.42 [2.12 to 5.58]*
Duration (≤3 days)	0.54 [0.42 to 0.69]*	2.77 [1.77 to 4.35]*
Vomiting	1.92 [1.57 to 2.36]*	2.56 [1.54 to 4.31]*
Wheeze	3.33 [2.66 to 4.16]*	2.16 [1.28 to 3.60]*
Temperature		1.99 [1.22 to 3.25]*
Asthma		3.93 [2.20 to 7.03]*
Recession		3.82 [2.23 to 6.62]*

*p≤0.006. Square brackets contain 95% CIs.

GPs, general practitioners.