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

Table 5

Predictors of good outcome* by multivariate analysis.

Variable	Odds ratio	95% CI	P value
Increasing age	0.95	0.93, 0.98	<0.01
DND	0.58	0.26, 1.29	<0.01
Number of days febrile category^¥			<0.01
1-2	0.19	0.06, 0.62
3–5	0.13	0.04, 0.41
>5	0.08	0.02, 0.24

*Good outcome = GOS 4 or 5
^¥Compared to a reference of zero days febrile.