Epidemiological and clinical characteristics predictive of ICU mortality of patients with traumatic brain injury treated at a trauma referral hospital – a cohort study

Table 4 Multiple logistic regression of prognostic factors for mortality among patients with TBI in ICU

Prognostic factors	N of the model	OR (95% CI) for mortality^a	P value^b
Age (years)	1114	1.008 (1.002–1.015)	0.016
Apache II		1.180 (1.155–1.204)	< 0.001
Worst Glasgow Coma Scale score in the first 24 h		0.730 (0.700–0.760)	< 0.001
Number of injuries on cranial CT
None		Ref
One		3.250 (1.146–9.218)	0.027
Two		4.099 (1.414–11.883)	0.009
Three		10.969 (3.602–33.406)	< 0.001
Associated thorax injury (ref: absence of thoracic injury)		1.727 (1.192–2.501)	< 0.001

^a Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval of the OR (95% CI) of the multiple binary logistic regression model for mortality
^b Significant, Wald test of the logistic regression model
Abbreviations: TBI, traumatic brain injury; ICU, intensive care unit; OR, odds ratio; APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; CT, computed tomography

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