Table 5 The mortality risk among patients with traumatic brain injury and tuberculosis.

From: The risk of pulmonary tuberculosis after traumatic brain injury

 

Moderate-CCI versus Mild-CCI

Severe-CCI versus Mild-CCI

HR (95% CI)a

p value

HR (95% CI)a

p value

Overall

1.37 (0.98–1.91)

0.0676

1.72 (1.03–2.86)

0.0366

Age at entry

< 50

0.52 (0.15–1.80)

0.2991

1.48 (0.20–10.85)

0.7022

50–64

2.60 (1.18–5.74)

0.0182

1.03 (0.13–8.32)

0.9773

65–79

1.56 (0.94–2.59)

0.0874

2.18 (1.02–4.65)

0.0435

≧80

0.96 (0.49–1.87)

0.9086

1.92 (0.83–4.42)

0.1268

Sex

Male

1.38 (0.96–1.99)

0.0823

1.74 (0.98–3.09)

0.0567

Female

1.10 (0.84–2.76)

0.8423

1.94 (0.64–5.85)

0.2421

  1. CCI Charlson’s comorbidity index, HR hazard ratio, CI confidence interval, NHIRD National Health Insurance Research Database, TBI traumatic brain injury, ICU intensive care unit, TB tuberculosis, DM diabetes mellitus, ESRD end-stage renal disease, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  2. aAdjusted by the variables of age, gender, the length of stay, and the length of ICU stays, but excluding the stratified variable in the model.
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