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Table 4 Predictors of Pneumonia during stay on Intensive Care Unit

From: Neurocritical care complications and interventions influence the outcome in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Risk factors

Odds ratio

95 % Confidence interval

p

Sex

0.78

0.36–1.68

0.52

Age

1.03

1.00–1.06

0.041

WFNS Grade

2.23

1.47–3.40

0.00017

Hydrocephalus

3.49

1.54–7.89

0.0028

Shunt

2.95

0.90–9.73

0.075

Sepsis

5.50

0.97–31.04

0.054

Diabetes insipidus

0.66

0.21–2.04

0.47

Decompressive craniectomy

4.45

1.61–12.26

0.0039

  1. Binary logistic regression was performed as a multivariate analysis with dichotomized status of pneumonia (0 = “no pneumonia”; 1 = “pneumonia”) as the dependent variable and sex, age, WFNS grade, hydrocephalus, shunt, sepsis, diabetes insipidus and decompressive craniectomy as independent variables (covariates)
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BMC Neurology

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