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Table 4 Factors possibly associated with in-hospital mortality

From: In-hospital outcome of patients with culture-confirmed tuberculous pleurisy: clinical impact of pulmonary involvement

Characteristics

 

Unlvariate p value

Multivariate pvalue

Multivariate OR (95% CI.)

Age

≥ 65 years

0.025

0.865

 
 

< 65 years

   

Underlying co-morbid illness

Yes

0.001

0.036

2.60 (1.06~6.38)

 

No

   

Disease extent

Pleuro-pulmonary

0.001

0.014

8.67 (1.56~48.27)

 

Isolated pleurisy

   

Serum albumin level

< 3.5 g/dL

< 0.001

0.344

 
 

≥ 3.5 g/dL

   

Anemia

Presence

0.008

0.444

 
 

Absence

   

Drug resistance

Anyone

0.370

  
 

All sensitive

   

Radiographic finding

Bilateral

0.002

0.211

 
 

Unilateral

   

Days to anti-tuberculous treatment

No treated

< 0.001

< 0.001

12.17 (3.88~38.14)

 

> 14 days

0.164

0.914

1.06 (0.38~2.92)

 

≤ 14 days

   
  1. The 65 patients with typical pleural pathology for TP were all alive at discharge, whereas 39 of the remaining 140 patients died in hospital (p < 0.001 by the chi-square test). Therefore, logistic regression was performed on the 140 patients who had not received a pleural biopsy or had no typical pleural pathology for TP.