Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis “Yang-Xu Zheng”: Significant Prognostic Predictor for Patients with Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

Table 5

Multivariate analysis of independent predictor for sepsis mortality.

Variable	Prediction rate: 70.6%
	𝐵	Wald	Relative risk	95% CI	𝑃 value
Age	−0.01	0.77	0.99	0.96–1.02	NS
Gender	0.33	0.55	1.39	0.59–3.29	NS
APACHE II	0.03	1.11	1.03	0.98–1.01	NS
Nutrient-phase Zheng	0.31	0.51	1.36	0.58–3.16	NS
Yang-Xu Zheng	1.75	16.62	5.74	2.48–13.3	<0.01

Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed by “enter” method.
APACHE II: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II.
CI: confidence interval.
𝑃 value < 0.05 being statistically significant.