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Table 5 Risk factors for herpes simplex virus-related tracheobronchitis or pneumonia and fatal outcome: results of multiple logistic regression analysis with stepwise variable selection

From: Clinical relevance of and risk factors for HSV-related tracheobronchitis or pneumonia: results of an outbreak investigation

Variable

Adjusted odds ratio

95% confidence interval

Outcome herpes simplex virus-related tracheobronchitis or pneumonia

  

   Interaction of ventilation time > median with tracheotomy

32.8

2.72–1000

   Number of erythrocyte concentrates > median (7)

8.16

0.96–226.4

   c index 0.867

  

Outcome death

  

   Ventilation time > median (4.7 days)

30.7

3.3–892.7

   Bronchoscopy

19.8

2.2–536.6

   Number of thrombocyte concentrates > median (3)

16.3

2.1–388.7

   c index 0.899

  
  1. Significance level for inclusion of variables in the model and for remaining included in the model was 0.1. (For mathematical reasons, herpes simplex virus-related tracheobronchitis or pneumonia could not be included in the model for outcome death.)