Table 4 Effect of early surgery on 30-day or 90-day mortality: logistic regression analysis.

From: Treatment outcomes in patients with pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis who have cirrhosis

Categories of mortality

Method of adjustment

odds ratio

95% confidence interval

p-value

30-day mortality

Non-adjusted

None

0.707

(0.218, 2.287)

0.563

Adjusted

Model 1

0.394

(0.083, 1.867)

0.241

Model 2

0.002

(<0.001, 0.347)

0.018

90-day mortality

Non-adjusted

None

0.741

(0.298, 1.846)

0.520

Adjusted

Model 3

0.588

(0.180, 1.922)

0.379

Model 4

0.194

(0.026, 1.436)

0.108

  1. Model 1: adjusted for age, Child-Turcotte-Pugh, and bacteremia.
  2. Model 2: adjusted for age, Child-Turcotte-Pugh class, Child-Turcotte-Pugh score, MELD score, hepatocellular carcinoma, GI bleeding, prothrombin time (INR), sepsis, urinary tract infection, other musculoskeletal infection, and multiple spinal lesion.
  3. Model 3: adjusted for MELD score, presence of combined infection, and multiple spinal lesion.
  4. Model 4: adjusted for age, Child-Turcotte-Pugh class, Child-Turcotte-Pugh score, MELD score, hepatocellular carcinoma, GI bleeding, platelet, bilirubin, prothrombin time (INR), creatinine, sepsis, presence of combined infection, urinary tract infection, other musculoskeletal infection, and multiple spinal lesion.
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