Table 3

Logistic regression models predicting mortality and hospital length of stay

Predictors

Unadjusted Mortality OR (95% CI)

Adjusted Mortality OR (95% CI)

Unadjusted "Long" hospital stays OR (95% CI)

Adjusted "Long" hospital stays OR (95% CI)

IVIG exposure

5.8 (1.2–27.1)

4.3 (0.7–27.9)

12.1 (5.4–27.3)

7.5 (2.8–20.0)

IV vancomycin

7.2 (1.5–33.4)

Diagnosis of PEM

13.3 (2.2–81.0)

E. coli blood culture

20.7 (1.1–379.7)

Female

7.0 (1.3–38.7)

3rd-line antibiotics

3.5 (1.3–9.7)

4th-line antibiotics

3.4 (1.1–10.4)

Positive blood culture for S. pneumoniae

0.13 (0.03–0.6)

Huang et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2008 8:127   doi:10.1186/1471-2334-8-127