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Table 6 Cox proportional hazards model of factors associated with all-cause in-hospital case fatality among patients with bloodstream infections due to a single organism in clinical dataset

From: Bacterial bloodstream infections in a tertiary infectious diseases hospital in Northern Vietnam: aetiology, drug resistance, and treatment outcome

Variable

Hazard ratio (95% CI)a

P-valueb

Gender (male/female)

1.347 (.857–2.115)

0.196

Age (1-yr. increment)

1.008 (0.998–1.01)

0.118

Aetiology of BSI (gram-positive bacterial infection as reference)

  Enterobacteriaceae infections

2.485 (1.546–3.994)

<0.001

 Non Enterobacteriaceae Gram-negative infections

1.931 (1.063–3.50)

0.031

Acquisition of infection (CABSI as reference)

1.006 (0.633–0.399)

0.053

Any co-morbidities

1.467 (1.017–2.114)

0.040

Referring from another hospital

2.049 (1.411–2.975)

<0.001

  1. aCases with S. maltophilia infection were excluded from analysis
  2. bHazard ratios and P-values were calculated using Cox proportional hazards model
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BMC Infectious Diseases

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