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Table 4 Multiple logistic regression for factors affecting the fatality rate

From: Variations of care quality for infectious pulmonary tuberculosis in Taiwan: a population based cohort study

  

Full model

Reduced model@

Variables

Reference group

β

OR (95% CI)

β

OR (95% CI)

Age

 

0.06

1.06 (1.04, 1.08)***

0.06

1.06 (1.04, 1.08)***

Gender

     

   Female

Male

-0.12

0.89 (0.51, 1.55)

  

Physician

     

   Pulmonologist

Non-pulmonologist

-0.36

0.70 (0.42, 1.162)

  

Institution

     

   Chest Specialty Hospital

Other healthcare institutions

-1.54

0.21 (0.06, 0.73)*

-1.63

0.20 (0.06, 0.66)**

Hosmer and Lemeshow

 

X2 = 7.25

 

X2 = 4.40

 
  1. @ reduced model using forward substitution; * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001