Off-Label Medicine Use in Pediatric Inpatients: A Prospective Observational Study at a Tertiary Care Hospital in India

Table 5

Predictors of off-label medicine use (multivariate binary logistic regression model).

Sr. number	Parameter	Total number of patients	OR (95% CI)	value
1	Age group
	0–2 years	201	1.68 (1.26–2.24)	<0.001
	>2–6 years	74	1.40 (0.99–1.96)	0.052
	>6–12 years	45	1 (reference)	—
2	Gender
	Female	114	1.41 (1.13–1.77)	0.002
	Male	206	1 (reference)	—
3	Number of diagnosis
	Double or more	48	0.91 (0.73–1.12)	0.389
	Single	272	1 (reference)	—
4	Hospital stay
	1–5	224	1.32 (0.97–1.81)	0.074
	6–10	66	1.91 (1.33–2.75)	<0.001
	More than 10	30	1 (reference)	—

< 0.05 indicates significant difference and > or = 0.05 indicates nonsignificant difference; OR: odd ratio and CI: confidence Interval.