Influence of Fever and Hospital-Acquired Infection on the Incidence of Delayed Neurological Deficit and Poor Outcome after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Table 3

Factors significantly associated with good outcome by univariate analysis.

Variable	Odds ratio	95% CI	P value
Increasing age	0.95	0.93, 0.98	<0.01
DND	0.37	0.18, 0.77	<0.01
Fever	0.12	0.05, 0.32	<0.01
Infection	0.21	0.09, 0.46	<0.01
Fisher grade*			0.02
2	0.58	0.06, 5.79
3	0.20	0.02, 1.69
4	0.13	0.02, 1.03
Number of days febrile category^¥			<0.01
1-2	0.19	0.06, 0.57
3–5	0.13	0.04, 0.41
>5	0.08	0.02, 0.23
Number of infections category^Φ			<0.01
1	0.29	0.11, 0.76
2	0.24	0.08, 0.66
>2	0.10	0.04, 0.32

*Compared to Fisher grade 1.
^¥Compared to a reference of zero days febrile.
^ΦCompared to a reference of zero infections.