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Table 4 Multivariable logistic regression for significant predictors of mortality

From: Hospital outcomes for paediatric pneumonia and diarrhoea patients admitted in a tertiary hospital on weekdays versus weekends: a retrospective study

  

Odds ratio

95% CI

P value

LRT

     

<0.001

Day of admission

     
 

Weekday

1.00 (ref)

   
 

Weekend

1.15

0.90 – 1.46

0.258

 

Age group

     
 

6 month bands

0.80

0.71 – 0.89

<0.001

 

Gender

     
 

Female

1.00 (ref)

   
 

Male

0.70

0.56 – 0.88

0.003

 

Diagnosis

     
 

Dehydration

1.00 (ref)

 

<0.001

 
 

Pneumonia

1.28

0.97 – 1.68

  
 

Both Dehydration and Pneumonia

2.35

1.67 – 3.30

  

Co-morbidity

    
 

No co-morbidity

1.00 (ref)

   
 

With co-morbidity

1.83

1.43 – 2.35

<0.001

 

Disease severity

    
 

Non-severe

1.00 (ref)

   
 

Severe

1.54

1.22 – 1.94

<0.001