Research Article

Prognostic Risk Factors of 30-Day Death in Traumatic Lower Limb Fracture Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism: A Single-Center Retrospective Study

Table 2

Predictors of all-cause death in TLLF patients complicated with APE by Cox proportional hazards regression.

Unadjusted HR (95% CI) valueAdjusted HR (95% CI) value

Age ≥652.4661.0046.4560.0491.0220.9881.0570.204
Sex1.2640.6102.6180.5291.9400.9204.0920.082
sPESI score ≥18.6003.67220.141<0.013.3701.2658.9780.015
Wells score ≥77.2202.75418.928<0.016.2342.35716.541<0.01
Pulmonary hypertension10.1504.84021.286<0.015.1692.23411.958<0.01
Anticoagulant therapy0.2740.1250.6020.0010.3430.1510.7810.011

HR: hazard ratio; other abbreviations as in Table 1. Adjustment for age ≥65, sex, and all the clinical variables with values of <0.20 with backward stepwise method (likelihood ratio).