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Table 5 Competing risk factors independently associated with ICU mortality in the 130 patients assessed by multivariate Cox regression analysis

From: Effect of antibiotic therapy on the prognosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Variables

Hazard ratio (CI 95%)

p-value

Death without WLST

 Appropriate treatment

0.33 (0.11–0.97)

0.04

 Age

1.02 (0.98–1.05)

0.35

 SOFA score on day of VAP onset

1.12 (1.01–1.24)

0.04

Death with WLST

 Appropriate treatment

0.47 (0.24–0.90)

0.02

 Age

1.03 (1.01–1.05)

0.004

 SOFA score on day of VAP onset

1.12 (1.01–1.24)

0.05

  1. Qualitative variables are expressed as number (%)
  2. CI confidence interval, WLST Withholding of Life-Sustaining Treatment, SOFA Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, VAP ventilator-associated pneumonia