Quality of life after stay in surgical intensive care unit

BMC Anesthesiology

Table 7 Logistic regression to evaluate the association between self reported health changes (6 months before ICU admission) and the different variables studied (6 months after ICU discharge)

Variable	Simple OR	p	Adjusted* OR (95% CI)	p^a
Age group
< 65 years	1
≥ 65 years	0.917	0.792
Gender
Male	1
Female	1.339	0.387
ASA physical status
I/II	1
III/IV	1.137	0.699
Type of surgery
Scheduled	1
Emergent	2.257	0.049
Magnitude of surgery
Minor	1
Medium	1.575	0.501
Major	1.087	0.902
SAPS II	1.044	0.002	1.06 (1.01 – 1.11)	0.016
Days of ICU length of stay	1.194	0.201
Employment Status
full employed	1
part-time employed	0.957	0.949
housekeepers	0.823	0.651
retired	0.000	0.999
Marital status
single, divorced or widowed	1
married or unmarried couples living together	1.041	0.914

^a logistic regression analysis with stepwise forward method was used with an entry criterion of p <0.05 and a removal criterion of p < 0.1.
ASA, American Society of Anesthesiologists; SAPS II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score; ICU, Intensive Care Unit; OR, odds ratio
*Adjusted to age, gender, ASA, type and magnitude of surgery, ICU LOS, marital and employment status

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