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Table 2 Risk factors for colonization of open abdomen*

From: Microbial colonization of open abdomen in critically ill surgical patients

 

Hazard ratio

95 % CI

p-value

Diagnosis

   

  Aortic pathology

reference

  

  SAP£

2.4

1.01–5.82

0.048

  Peritonitis

5.8

2.10–16.23

0.001

  Other diagnosis

3.3

1.30–8.44

0.012

  1. *Patients without primary colonization (n = 64) were included. Preoperative abdominal compartment syndrome and diagnosis were included in backward stepwise Cox regression analysis
  2. £SAP = severe acute pancreatitis