Research Article
Incidence and Predicted Risk Factors of Pressure Ulcers in Surgical Patients: Experience at a Medical Center in Taipei, Taiwan
Table 3
Multivariate analysis using logistic regression model of risk factors associated with the pressure ulcers among study population (
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| Variable | Types of pressure ulcers (yes versus no) | Immediately | 30 minutes later | OR | (95% CI) | OR | (95% CI) |
| Gender (female versus male) | 0.98 | 0.39–2.61 | 0.65 | 0.18–2.27 | Operation age (yrs) | 1.03 | 1.00–1.08 | 1.06 | 1.00–1.12 | Type of anesthesia (general anesthesia) (yes versus no) | 17.06 | 2.09–49.43 | 5.29 | 0.56–46.71 | Type of operation position (nonsupine versus supine) | 32.26 | 4.48–48.79 | 18.18 | 1.32–52.63 | Type of surgery | | | | | General surgery | 1.00 | — | 1.00 | — | Neurosurgery | 1.29 | 0.20–8.58 | 5.57 | 0.28–19.69 | Orthopedics surgery | 3.33 | 1.05–10.61 | 9.29 | 1.05–28.50 | Cardiac surgery | 6.98 | 0.72–39.88 | 22.60 | 1.20–43.85 | Heart-lung machine used (yes versus no) | 5.24 | 0.51–43.55 | 7.58 | 0.51–49.28 | Admission Braden score | 0.95 | 0.91–0.99 | 0.93 | 0.80–1.09 | Number of nursing intervention | 0.94 | 0.90–0.98 | 0.95 | 0.91–0.99 | The Hosmer-Lemeshow test | | | c-statistics | 0.914 | 0.917 |
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