Research Article
Characteristics, Outcomes, and Cost Patterns of High-Cost Patients in the Intensive Care Unit
Table 4
Multivariate logistic regression for variables associated with high cost among decedents.
| Characteristics | OR | 95% confidence intervals | value |
| Age | 18–45 | Reference | 46–69 | 0.63 | 0.38–1.02 | 0.061 | 70–79 | 0.63 | 0.37–1.05 | 0.075 | 80+ | 0.24 | 0.13–0.44 | <0.001 |
| Sex | Male | 1.39 | 1.03–1.87 | 0.032 |
| Elixhauser comorbidity score | | | | Elixhauser comorbidity score (total) | 1.00 | 0.98–1.02 | 0.867 |
| Most responsible diagnosis | Sepsis | 1.21 | 0.80–1.80 | 0.365 | Malignancy | 1.68 | 1.05–2.67 | 0.030 | Subarachnoid hemorrhage | 0.35 | 0.08–1.48 | 0.152 | Other nontraumatic ICH | — | | | Ischemic stroke | — | | | Heart failure | — | | | AAA and dissection | 2.20 | 0.87–5.53 | 0.095 | Pneumonia | 0.90 | 0.35–2.33 | 0.828 | COPD | 1.00 | 0.41–2.40 | 0.995 | Acute respiratory failure | 2.25 | 1.37–3.68 | 0.001 | Vascular disorders of the intestine | 0.44 | 0.10–1.85 | 0.260 | Liver | 0.51 | 0.15–1.70 | 0.273 | Renal failure | 0.62 | 0.08–4.75 | 0.643 | Traumatic intracranial injury | 0.25 | 0.08–0.82 | 0.022 | Overdoses | — | | | Complications of procedures | 2.85 | 1.52–5.33 | 0.001 |
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Most responsible diagnosis groups are compared to a reference group made up of all other diagnoses.
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