Table 6.

Logistic regression to adjust variables for potential confounders (all facilities)

Variable	UAOR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)	P value
Patients on antibiotics
Age in years	1.00 (0.98–1.01)	0.98 (0.96–1.00)	0.022
Gender
Female	1	1
Male	0.65 (0.35–1.21)	2.33 (0.88–6.20)	0.09
Surgery on Admission
No	1	1
Yes	5.1 (1.89–14.00)	3.2 (0.83–12.56)	0.092
Comorbidities
McCabe Score
Rapidly Fatal	1	1
Non-Fatal	1.8 (0.71–4.79)	2.51 (0.60–10.49)	0.206
Ultimately Fatal	1.1 (0.18–6.97)	0.60 (0.04–9.83)	0.721
Use of catheter
No	1	1
Yes	3.5 (1.38–9.11)	4.26 (0.82–22.02)	0.084
Type of infection
Malaria
No	1	1
Yes	0.4 (0.19–0.98)	0.33 (0.11–0.94)	0.038
Tuberculosis
No	1
Yes	0.2 (0.01–2.02)	–	–
HIV
No	1
Yes	1.5 (0.29–8.12)	–	–
Peripheral vascular catheter
No	1	1
Yes	3.5 (1.82–6.80)	2.31 (0.90–5.87)	0.08

UAOR, unadjusted odds ratio; AOR, adjusted odds ratio. Dashes represent variables that were dropped due to limited numbers and/or collinearity.