Non-communicable disease burden among inpatients at a rural district hospital in Malawi

Table 4 Criteria associated with patient length of stay

Variable	Univariate		Multivariate
Variable	Coefficient (95% CI)	p value	Coefficient (95% CI)	p value
Age, years (per year)	0.1 (0.1, 0.1)	< 0.001	0.04 (0.02, 0.1)	< 0.001
Female sex	− 0.7 (− 1.5, 0.1)	0.10	− 0.7 (− 1.4, 0.1)	0.07
IC3-enrolled	4.5 (3.3, 5.7)	< 0.001
Rainy season admission	− 0.2 (− 1.0, 0.6)	0.66
SIRS on admission	− 0.6 (− 1.7, 0.4)	0.23
Hypoxia (oxygen saturation < 90%) on admission	1.7 (− 0.6, 4.0)	0.14
Hypotension (SBP < 90 mmHg) on admission	0.6 (− 1.8, 3.1)	0.63
HIV diagnosis	3.6 (2.4, 4.9)	< 0.001
TB diagnosis	11.4 (9.2, 13.5)	< 0.001	10.1 (8.2, 12.0)	< 0.001
Malaria diagnosis	− 3.5 (− 4.6, − 2.6)	< 0.001	− 1.7 (− 2.6, − 0.7)	0.001
Surgery during hospiatlization	0.5 (− 0.8, 1.9)	0.44
Medical NCD diagnosis	4.6 (3.5, 5.7)	< 0.001	5.2 (2.8, 7.6)	< 0.001
Number of medical NCD diagnoses (per unit)	2.8 (2.0, 3.6)	< 0.001	− 2.0 (− 3.7, − 0.2)	0.03
Burns diagnosis	11.2 (7.4, 14.9)	< 0.001	11.6 (8.3, 14.9)	< 0.001
Trauma diagnosis	0.6 (− 0.8, 2.0)	0.38

Linear regression findings for factors associated with patient length of stay, with both univariate and multivariate findings
CI Confidence interval, IC3 Integrated chronic care clinic, SIRS Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, SBP Systolic blood pressure, HIV Human immunodeficiency virus, TB Tuberculosis, NCD Non-communicable disease

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