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Table 6 Predictors of mortality in all TBI including both EIH and no EIH patients

From: Burden, risk factors, neurosurgical evacuation outcomes, and predictors of mortality among traumatic brain injury patients with expansive intracranial hematomas in Uganda: a mixed methods study design

Variables

Death

Alive

Bivariate CHR (95% CI)

Multivariate AHR (95% CI)

No. (%)

 No. (%)

 

n (%)

33 (10.2)

291 (89.8)

  

Age group in years, n (%)

  18 to 30

13 (39.4)

145 (49.8)

1

1 

  31 to 45

9 (27.3)

52 (17.9)

2.0 (0.8-4.7)

34.1 (0.03 - 3.3) 

  46 to 60

8 (24.2)

57 (19.6)

2.02 (08-4.9)

6.5 (0.09 - 5.03) 

  61 and above

3 (9.1)

37 (12.7)

0.7 (0.1-3.5)

0.9 (0.002 - 39)

Mean arterial pressure

    

Less than 95

  

1

1

95 and above

  

2.2 (1.08 - 4.6)

5.4 (0.04 - 6.5)

Severity of GCS

    

Mild

7 (21.2)

185 (63.9)

1

1

Moderate

5 (15.2)

58 (19.9)

2.2 (0.7 - 7.01)

6.6 (4.6 - 9.6)

Severe

21 (63.6)

48 (16.5)

9.3 (3.9 - 22.09)

2.4 (4.8 - 12.05)

GOS

    

  GOS Unfavourable

26 (78.8)

59 (20.3)

1

1 

  GOS Favourable

7 (21.2)

232 (79.7)

12.2 (5.2 - 28.4)

3.04(4.5-20.2)

  Complication

    

Fever (Y), n (%)

18 (54.5)

15 (5.2)

9.1 (4.4 - 18.7)

0.03 (0.0007 - 1.6)

Infection (Y), n (%)

25 (75.8)

32 (11.0)

15.7 (7.05 - 35.3)

2.1 (0.0009 - 4.8)

Spasticity (Y), n (%)

12 (36.4)

59 (20.3)

2.2 (1.09 - 4.7))

9.8 (0.06 - 1.5)

Bleeding diathesis (Y), n (%)

21 (63.6)

79 (27.1)

5.2 (2.5 - 11.02)

4.9 (1.5 - 15.2)

Wound dehiscence (Y), n (%)

2 (6.1)

3 (1.0)

5.08 (1.1 - 21.8)

7.3 (0.2 - 19.5)

CSF Leak (Y), n (%)

4 (12.1)

5 (1.7)

2.4 (0.8 - 7.4)

1.6 (0 - 0)

Nutrition deficit (Y), n (%)

3 (9.1)

10 (3.4)

2.5 (0.7 - 8.4)

0.00003 (5.5 - 20.3)

QOLIBRI at 1 day, n (%)

    

  0 to 49

23 (69.7)

136 (46.7)

1

 

  50 to 100

10 (30.3)

155 (53.3)

0.5 (0.2 - 1.1)

4 (0.003 - 4.1)

Epidural hematoma, n (%)

    

  No

17 (51.5)

128 (44.0)

1

 

  Yes

16 (48.5)

163 (56.0)

0.9 (0.4-1.9)

0.3 (0.01 - 7.2)

Subdural Hematoma, n (%)

    

  No

26 (78.8)

133 (45.7)

1

 

  Yes

7 (21.2)

158 (54.3)

0.3(0.1 - 0.9)

1.9 (0 - 0)

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH), n (%)

    

  No

28 (84.8)

277 (95.2)

1

 

  Yes

5 (15.2)

14 (4.8)

4.4 (1.7 - 11.8)

0.2 (0.001 - 5.3)

Contusion(s), n (%)

    

  No

27 (81.8)

265 (91.1)

1

 

  Yes

6 (18.2)

26 (8.9)

3.3 (1.3 - 8.2)

7.01(0 - 0)

Expansive Hematoma, n (%)

    

  No

20 (60.6)

112 (38.5)

1.9 (0.7 - 3.2)

3.8(0 - 0) 

  Yes

13 (39.4)

179 (61.5)

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