Factors Associated with Treatment Outcome of Preterm Babies at Discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Table 5

Multiple logistic regression analysis of determinants of treatment success of preterm babies.

Variables	Variable categories	AOR (95% CI)	value
Hypothermia	Yes	7.2 (1.9-28.1)	0.004
	No	Reference
RDS	Yes	10.2 (3.7-27.9)	<0.0001
	No	Reference
Birth weight (g)	<1000	0.6 (0.04-8.1)	0.668
	1000-1499	0.4 (0.03-3.2)	0.371
	1500-2499	Reference
Gestational age (weeks)	<28	1.5 (0.2-10.3)	0.668
	28-<32	0.8 (0.2-4.3)	0.803
	32-37	Reference
Neonatal jaundice	Yes	2.9 (1.0-8.5)	0.045
	No	Reference
Mode of delivery	C/S	1.6 (0.6-4.6)	0.384
	SVD	Reference
Age on admission (days)	1-3	6.0 (0.6-63.2)	0.134
	4-7	1.6 (0.1-33.4)	0.763
	>7	Reference