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Table 5 Survival time analysis until day 150 after inclusion (independent risk factors)

From: Acute and long-term survival in chronically critically ill surgical patients: a retrospective observational study

 

Hazard ratio (95% confidence interval)

P value

Age (per year)a

3.213 (1.823–5.665)

< 0.001

Maximum APACHE II score (per point)b

15.311 (5.860–40.005)

< 0.001

Number of surgical revisions (per revision)c

1.381 (1.154–1.652)

< 0.001

Time-dependent covariate for number of surgical revisions

1.689 (1.189–2.400)

0.003

Maximum number of failing organs (per organ)c

1.664 (1.260–2.198)

< 0.001

Pneumonia

2.263 (1.225–4.180)

0.009

Time-dependent covariate for pneumonia

1.480 (1.121–1.954)

0.006

Surgery for thoracic diseases

1.975 (1.335–2.921)

0.001

Peritonitis

1.789 (1.278–2.504)

0.001

  1. aAfter power transformation. bAfter logarithmic transformation.cAfter quadratic transformation. APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation.