Table 3 Difference in secondary outcome variables between discharged patients and those who left the hospital against medical advice or were referred to other centres, in patients treated as bacterial meningitis at teaching hospitals in Ethiopia, 2011–2015
Discharge outcome | GOS, N (%) | Neurologic sequelae, N (%) | Impaired GCS, N (%) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | P | Yes | No | P | Yes | No | P | |
LAMA/referred | 21 (33.9) | 6 (9.7) | 20 (32.3) | 15 (24.2) | <0.001 | 16 (25.8) | 46 (74.2) | <0.001 | 13 (21.0) | 49 (79.0) | <0.001 |
Discharged | 1 (0.4) | 3 (1.1) | 19 (6.9) | 254 (91.7) | 18 (6.5) | 259 (93.5) | 2 (0.7) | 275 (99.3) | |||