Table 5.
Risk factors and symptoms: predictors for mortality.
| Effect | Odds Ratio | 95% Wald |
p-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confidence Limits | ||||
| Age 65 and older | 3.87 | 2.01 | 7.46 | <0.001 |
| Gender (Male) | 1.24 | 0.78 | 1.97 | 0.359 |
| Patient admitted from home | 1.18 | 0.69 | 2.03 | 0.552 |
| PMH hypertension | 1.04 | 0.59 | 1.83 | 0.883 |
| PMH hyperlipidemia | 1.36 | 0.83 | 2.21 | 0.221 |
| PMH Cardiomyopathy | 3.33 | 1.07 | 10.41 | 0.038 |
| PMH A. fib | 0.91 | 0.50 | 1.65 | 0.760 |
| PMH COPD | 1.21 | 0.70 | 2.09 | 0.505 |
| PMH CVA | 1.54 | 0.73 | 3.26 | 0.258 |
| PMH DM | 1.09 | 0.67 | 1.78 | 0.723 |
| PMH Dementia | 1.38 | 0.76 | 2.50 | 0.294 |
| PMH Active cancer | 1.44 | 0.77 | 2.71 | 0.253 |
| AKI (Defined as increase in serum creatinine of 0.3 mg/dL in 48 h, serum creatinine increase of 1.5 mg/dL from baseline in 7 days or urine output of <0.5 mL/kg/hour in 6 h) | 3.33 | 2.10 | 5.28 | <0.001 |
| Dyspnea in ED noted as positive | 1.71 | 1.03 | 2.82 | 0.037 |
| Initial CXR/CT findings | 2.24 | 1.26 | 3.97 | 0.006 |
PMH - past medical history, CHF - congestive heart failure, A. fib - atrial fibrillation, COPD - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, CVA - cerebrovascular accident, CKD - chronic kidney disease, DM - diabetes mellitus, AKI - acute kidney injury, CXR - chest x-ray, CT - computed tomography.