Diabetes and Hemoglobin A1c as Risk Factors for Nosocomial Infections in Critically Ill Patients

Table 4

Multivariate analysis for risk factors for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in all analyzed patients.

	OR	95% CI	Wald statistic	P
BSI on admission	2.557	0.823–7.942	2.637	0.104
BSI in ICU	1.229	0.412–3.667	0.137	0.712
Blood transfusion in ICU	3.327	1.227–9.022	5.576	0.018
Enteral feeding	6.205	1.909–20.170	9.210	0.002
Parenteral feeding	2.100	0.493–8.953	1.006	0.316
Tracheostomy	1.353	0.507–3.610	0.366	0.545

The Hosmer-Lemeshow statistic (calibration) was not significant: 𝜒² = 9.667, df = 7, P = 0.208. Overall accuracy (discrimination), 85.8%. BSI: bloodstream infections, ICU: intensive care unit.