Table 4.
Inpatient mortality in regard to different clinical variables
| Variables | Univariate analysis | Multivariate analysis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | p | 95% CI | OR | p | 95% CI | |
| Age (≥ 48 years) | 6.3 | < 0.001 | 3.4–11.6 | 4.0 | < 0.001 | 1.8–8.6 |
| Sex (female) | 2.0 | 0.005 | 1.2–3.3 | 1.1 | 0.815 | 0.6–2.1 |
| Trach vs. burn | 2.3 | 0.001 | 1.4–3.7 | 0.7 | 0.367 | 0.3–1.7 |
| Dysphagia (yes) | 3.8 | 0.002 | 1.6–9.2 | 1.7 | 0.312 | 0.6–4.8 |
| NGT (≥ 19.5 days) | 0.9 | 0.727 | 0.4–1.8 | |||
| Neurocognitive impairment (yes) | 2.5 | 0.001 | 1.4–4.5 | 1.5 | 0.235 | 0.8–3.0 |
| ICU stay (≥ 12 days) | 1.1 | 0.653 | 0.7–1.8 | |||
| Burn of head and neck | 1.1 | 0.806 | 0.6–1.8 | |||
| Inhalation injury | 4.3 | < 0.001 | 2.4–7.8 | 2.5 | 0.029 | 1.1–5.6 |
| TBSA (high) | 2.6 | < 0.001 | 1.5–4.2 | 0.9 | 0.778 | 0.3–2.2 |
| ABSI (high) | 8.8 | < 0.001 | 5.0–15.6 | 7.1 | < 0.001 | 2.5–20.0 |
Uni- and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to evaluate the impact of different clinical variables on the development of dysphagia. The median age (48 years), duration of nutrition through the nasogastric feeding tube (NGT, 19.5 days), ICU stay (12 days), total body surface area (TBSA) burn injury (20.0%), and ABSI (abbreviated burn severity index; 7.0) were used for dichotomizing patients into low and high subgroups