Program on high value cost-conscious education in intensive care: Educational program on prediction of outcome and cost awareness on Intensive Care admission

Table 3 Odds ratios for the admission of the patient to the ICU

Factor	Pre-education		Post-education
Factor	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value
Presence of haematological malignancy	2.084 (1.257–3.454)	0.004	1.021 (0.582–1.789)	0.943
Acute kidney failure	0.694 (0.427–1.127)	0.140	0.803 (0.465–1.388)	0.433
Age
< 60 years	reference		reference
60–80 years	0.576 (0.231–1.438)	0.237	0.584 (0.214–1.590)	0.292
> 80 years	0.444 (0.142–1.394)	0.164	0.543 (0.153–1.931)	0.346
BMI > 25	2.931 (1.008–8.526)	0.048	3.228 (0.950–10.969)	0.060
Presence of COPD	0.890 (0.560–1.414)	0.622	0.866 (0.538–1.393)	0.553
Severity of Pancreatitis, measured by Ranson score [12]
3–4	Reference
5–6	0.054 (0.019–0.156)	0.000	0.129 (0.050–0.334)	0.000
7–8	0.664 (0.353–1.247)	0.203	0.626 (0.289–1.354)	0.234
Previous history of liver disease	0.633 (0.782–1.161)	0.633	1.000 (0.503–1.987)	1.000

The OR represents the average odd that the patient is likely to be not admitted to the ICU
OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval, BMI body mass index, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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