Patterns and Predictors of Timely Presentation and Outcomes of Polytrauma Patients Referred to the Emergency Department of a Tertiary Hospital in Tanzania

Table 4

Univariate and multivariate analyses of predictors of mortality of referral polytrauma patients who presented to EMD-MNH.

Variable	Univariate, OR (95% CI), value	Multivariate, AOR (95% CI), value
Age >33 years	1.1 (0.4–2.7), 0.852
Male sex	1.2 (0.3–4.5), 0.794
GCS ≤8	30.3 (8.2–112.8), <0.0001	16.3 (3.1–86.3), 0.001
SpO2 ≤92%	29.6 (6.5–134.9), <0.0001	8.3 (1.4–50.9), 0.022
Heart rate ≤60 or ≥100	7.9 (1.7–35.3), 0.007	2.6 (0.4–19.4), 0.342
Respiratory rate ≤10 or >20	3.6 (1.3–10.6), 0.017	1.3 (0.3–6.0), 0.750
Systolic BP ≤90 mmHg	8.3 (3.0–22.6), <0.0001	7.3 (1.6–33.6), 0.011
Injury severity score (≥25)	5.8 (4.5–7.2), 0.998
Needed intervention at EMD	7.3 (2.0–26.1), 0.002	0.7 (0.1–5.4), 0.763
Delayed >6 hrs	1.0 (0.4–2.5), 1.000	1.4 (0.3–5.6), 0.659