Effect of Antipyretic Therapy on Mortality in Critically Ill Patients with Sepsis Receiving Mechanical Ventilation Treatment

Table 2

Logistic regression model adjusting for confounding factors of antipyretic therapy.

Variables	OR	Lower limit	Upper limit
Age	1.01	1.01	1.02	<0.001
SAPS-1	1.07	1.05	1.08	<0.001
SOFA	1.13	1.11	1.15	<0.001
Female versus male	1.05	0.93	1.19	0.438
Care unit (versus MICU as reference)
SICU	0.66	0.50	0.86	0.003
CCU	0.92	0.78	1.07	0.273
CSRU	0.39	0.33	0.45	<0.001
Antipyretic therapy (any)	1.41	1.20	1.66	<0.001

OR, odds ratio; SAPS-1, Simplified Acute Physiology Score-1; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment; MICU, medical intensive care unit; SICU, surgical intensive care unit; CCU, coronary care unit; CSRU, cardiac surgery recovery unit.