Early clinical predictors for the prognosis of invasive pneumococcal disease

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 2 Multiple logistic regression analyses of early clinical manifestations potentially associated with in-hospital mortality

	Multivariate logistic regression
	OR(95%CI)	P value
Age(y)	1.649 (0.439, 1.187)	0.199^a
PRISMIII score	7.591 (1.028, 1.179)	0.006^b
Hyperpyrexia	5.372 (1.294, 21.710)	0.020^c
Vomiting	6.013 (1.023, 26.522)	0.014^c
Lethargy	9.633 (3.166, 164.297)	0.002^c
Poor perfusion of extremities	8.348 (1.910, 36.485)	0.001^c

Hyperpyrexia: fever over 40 °C; vomiting: greater than 3 times/d; CI confidence interval, OR odds ratio
^aafter adjustment for PRISMIII score
^bafter adjustment for age
^cafter adjustment for age and PRISMIII score

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