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Table 4 Multivariate analysis using multiple logistic regression analysis demonstrated that delay in hospital admission (p=0.0076) and POSSUM score (PS) (p=0.0301) were effective prognostic factors of elderly patients who underwent emergency abdominal surgery

From: Factors predicting mortality in emergency abdominal surgery in the elderly

 

Odds ratio

95% CI

p

Time from onset to hospital admission (>24 hr vs. 24 hr)

9.6039

1.8226-50.6079

0.0076**

APACHE II

1.1291

0.9223-1.3822

0.2395

POSSUM

PS

1.2013

1.0178-1.4178

0.0301*

 

OSS

1.0202

0.8468-1.2292

0.8331