Table 3:

Crude and adjusted odds ratios of death and length of stay (hazard ratios for discharge alive by 30 days)^a in children (aged 0–20) with severe sepsis in 2016 by race/ethnicity, clustered by hospital

		Odds of death						Hazard for discharge alive by 30 days
		(n=9,816)			(n=9,594)			(n=9,581)
		OR	95% CI	P value b	aORc	95% CI	P value d	aHR	95% CI	P value d
Race	White	1	ref		1			1
	Black	1·37	(1·19–1·58)		1·19	(1·02–1·38)	0·028	0·88	(0·82–0·94)	<0·001
	Hispanic	0·97	(0·85–1·12)		0·96	(0·82–1·11)	0·55	0·94	(0·88–1·00)	0·049
	Other	1·17	(0·98–1·40)	<0·0001	1·03	(0·86–1·25)	0·72	0·97	(0·89–1·04)	0·38

^a A hazard ratio less than one is indicative of a lower probability of discharge by 30 days i.e. a longer length of stay.

^bLR test p-value

^cAdjusted for other variables in the table and sex, age, median household income for patient’s zip code, elective admission, admitted from emergency department, transferred in, admitted at weekend, admission quarter, hospital bed size, hospital region, hospital control, hospital teaching status, presence of complex chronic condition·

^dWald test-p-value

^*intra-class correlation: 0.076 variance of the random effects