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Final adjusted logistic regression model values assessing risk of complicated appendicitis outcomes for each predictor variable.
| Predictor Variable | Odds Ratio | 95% Confidence Interval for OR |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Limit | Upper Limit | |||
| COVID-19 cohort (control cohort = reference) | 1.81 | 1.38 | 2.37 | < 0.001 |
| Increasing age (years) | 0.94 | 0.91 | 0.98 | 0.002 |
| Increasing duration of symptoms at presentation (days) | 1.26 | 1.18 | 1.34 | < 0.001 |
