Table 3 Median length of hospital stay per clinical and socio-demographic characteristics of patients (n = 432)
Characteristics | Category | Median (IQR) LOS in days |
|---|---|---|
HIV co-infection | Yes | 71(34 to 112) |
No | 59 (36.5 to 96) | |
Registration group | New | 53 (32 to 78) |
Previously treated | 36 (37 to 102) | |
Functional status at admission | Working | 32 (14 to 80) |
Ambulatory | 61 (37 to 89) | |
Bed ridden | 95 (47 to 137) | |
Baseline BMI | Low | 62 (37 to 102) |
Normal | 60 (35 to 93) | |
Overweight | 49 (28.5 to 84.5) | |
Chronic medical illness | Yes | 80 (37 to 112) |
No | 61 (36 to 99) | |
Adverse drug effects (ADE) | Yes | 66(41 to 112) |
No | 42(31 to 78) | |
Form of TB | Pulmonary | 63.5 (37 to 105) |
Extra pulmonary | 35.5 (14.5 to 53.5) | |
Age in years | < 24 | 56 (36 to 98) |
25–34 | 64 (33.5 to 97) | |
35–44 | 63.5 (42 to 102) | |
≥45 | 62 (32 to 122) | |
Housing condition | Homeless | 112 (55 to 98) |
Had housing | 61 (36 to 98) | |
Alcohol drinking | Yes | 66.5 (34 to 120) |
No | 61 (36 to 97) | |
Adverse drug effects | Gastro-intestinal upset | 67.5 (41 to 112.5) |
Electrolyte disturbance | 74 (41 to 157) | |
Nephrotoxicity | 70 (36 to 99) | |
Psychosis | 60.5 (38.5 to 97) | |
Arthralgia | 61 (37 to 111) | |
Neuropathy | 78 (51 to 126) | |
Ototoxicity | 77.5 (40.5 to 101.5) |