Risk Factors Associated with Surgical Site Infection following Cesarean Section in Tertiary Care Hospital, Nepal

Table 4

Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression model for procedure-related risk factor.

Procedure-related characteristics	Bivariate analysis		Multivariate analysis
	Unadjusted OR (95% CI)	value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	value
Type of CS
Emergency	4.38 (1.38-13.86)	0.012
Elective	Ref
Membrane rupture
Artificial	1.44 (0.70-2.94)	0.311
Spontaneous	Ref
Duration of rupture
≤18 hours	Ref		Ref	0.016
>18 hours	7.02 (1.50-32.66)	0.013	8.38 (1.48-47.35)
Number of PV examination
≤5 times	Ref		Ref
>5 times	1.93 (1.03-3.64)	0.040	2.52 (1.01-6.30)	0.046
Duration of CS
≤60 minutes	Ref		Ref
>60 minutes	2.03 (1.08-3.83)	0.027	2.12 (0.91-4.90)	0.080
Stage of labor
NIL	Ref		Ref
ESOL/ASOL/SSOL	3.85 (1.61-9.23)	0.002	6.52 (1.17-36.38)	0.032
Meconium
Yes	1.92 (0.93-3.95)	0.075
No	Ref
Labor dystocia
Yes	1.39 (1.12-1.78)	0.013	1.45 (0.45-4.62)	0.531
No	Ref		Ref
Blood loss (ml)
100-200	Ref		Ref
250-400	2.45 (1.03-5.82)	0.041	2.32 (0.71-7.45)	0.159

Denotes statistically significant at .