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. 2021 May 27;9(6):E777–E789. doi: 10.1055/a-1352-3204

Table 3. Factors associated with inpatient mortality in patients who underwent colonoscopy.

Variable Odds Ratio Lower 95 % CI Upper 95 % CI P value
Late colonoscopy Referent
Early colonoscopy (< 24 h) 1.08  0.93  1.25 0.336
Early colonoscopy (< 24 h) [exact-matching] 1 1.77  0.70  4.50 0.23
No EGD Referent
Early EGD 1.16  0.99  1.35 0.060
Late EGD 0.91  0.76  1.09 0.317
Age (per decade-increase) 1.44  1.35  1.55  < 0.001
Female 0.83  0.72  0.95 0.006
Weekend admission 1.12  0.96  1.29 0.149
CCI 1.33  1.30  1.36  < 0.001
Non-diverticular bleed 0.91  0.78  1.05 0.185
AKI 2.84  2.43  3.32  < 0.001
Colectomy/colostomy in same admission 9.76  8.02 11.88  < 0.001
ICU admission 18.78 14.66 24.06  < 0.001
PRBC Transfusion 1.30  1.13  1.50  < 0.001
Hospital region
Northeast Referent
Midwest 0.72  0.57  0.89 0.003
South 0.85  0.71  1.02 0.080
West 0.86  0.70  1.05 0.132
Hospital location/teaching status
Rural Referent
  • Urban non-teaching

0.96  0.75  1.23 0.766
  • Urban teaching

0.93  0.72  1.19 0.541
Hospital bed size
Small Referent
Medium 0.90  0.71  1.15 0.390
Large 1.00  0.80  1.24 0.969

Analysis N = 798,720. Mean variance inflation factor: 2.76

Intraclass correlation coefficient: 0.116

Area under the curve ROC: 0.913

CI, confidence interval; EGD, esophagogastroduodenoscopy; AKI, acute kidney injury; CCI, Charlson Comorbidity Index; ICU, intensive care unit; PRBC, packed red blood cell.

These results are derived from multivariable analysis using mixed-effects logistic regression.

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Exact-Matched Analysis on variables marked 1 in Table 1, yielding 19,631 matched observations (early colonoscopies n = 10,001), among 6,947 matching strata.