Research Article
Hospitalization Events among Children and Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease in Basra, Iraq
Table 6
Logistic regression analysis of different variables with readmission.
| Variable | OR | 95% (CI) | value | Lower | Upper |
| Age (years) | 0.674 | 0.105 | 4.327 | 0.911 | LOS | 1.073 | 0.048 | 24.032 | 0.688 | Sex | 0.352 | 0.087 | 1.444 | 0.141 | Type of SCD | 0.431 | 0.076 | 2.445 | 0.350 | Acute painful crisis | 1.608 | 0.150 | 17.209 | 0.221 | Hospitalization in previous year ≥ 3 | 9.352 | 2.011 | 43.490 | 0.001 | Blood transfusion in previous year ≥ 3 | 3.325 | 0.477 | 23.163 | 0.393 | Asthma symptoms | 4.225 | 1.125 | 15.862 | 0.028 | Opioid received | 6.588 | 1.104 | 30.336 | 0.000 | HU received | 0.082 | 0.010 | 0.663 | 0.006 |
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HU: hydroxyurea, LOS: length of stay, and SCD: sickle cell disease.
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