Bacterial Isolates and Antibacterial Resistance Patterns in a Patient with Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in a Tertiary Teaching Hospital, Southwest Ethiopia

Table 1

List of study variables.

	Variables
Independent variables	Age	Number of exacerbation’s in the previous year
	Sex	The severity of COPD
	Alcohol consumption	Biomass fuel exposure
	Residence	Comorbidities
	Smoking status	History of steroid/antibiotic use
Dependent variables	Culture result
	Type of bacteria
	Antibiotics resistance