Research Article

Association between Intraoperative Early Warning Score and Mortality and In-Hospital Stay in Lower Gastrointestinal Spontaneous Perforation

Table 3

Multivariate logistic regression analysis of NEWS and MEWS for in-hospital death and the length of hospital stay.

In-hospital deathLength of hospital stay
Crude OR (95% CI), valueAdjusteda OR (95% CI), valueCrude linear regression coefficient (95% CI), valueAdjusteda linear regression coefficient (95% CI), value

MEWS
Start MEWS1.03 (0.65–1.64), 1.00 (0.57–1.73), −0.57 (−7.51–6.37), −0.19 (−6.91–6.55),
Max MEWS1.37 (0.91–2.05), 1.14 (0.73–1.78), 1.30 (−5.50–8.11), −0.69 (−7.45–6.05),
End MEWS1.20 (0.81–1.77), 1.049 (0.69–1.57), −0.35 (−7.49–6.78), −0.78 (−7.72–6.17),
Start-to-end delta MEWS1.15 (0.79–1.70), 1.042 (0.70–1.55), 0.23 (−6.42–6.89), −0.73 (−7.45–5.98),
Start-to-1-hour delta MEWS1.23 (0.80–1.88), 0.989 (0.57–1.69), 3.15 (−3.25–9.56), 1.28 (−5.16–7.72),
Start-to-max delta MEWS1.44 (0.93–2.24), 1.19 (0.72–1.97), 1.51 (−7.23–10.25), −1.51 (−10.48–7.47),

NEWS
Start NEWS1.21 (0.79–1.85), 1.14 (0.71–1.82), −1.13 (−7.51–5.26), −1.62 (−7.74–4.49),
Max NEWS1.60 (1.10–2.32), 1.41 (0.94–2.12), 1.66 (−4.04–7.36), −0.72 (−6.47–5.04),
End NEWS1.31 (0.94–1.83), 1.25 (0.87–1.79), −0.65 (−6.60–5.31), −1.12 (−6.97–4.73),
Start-to-end delta NEWS1.16 (0.83–1.63), 1.14 (0.81–1.61), 1.78 (−4.50–8.06), 0.31 (−5.54–6.16),
Start-to-1-hour delta NEWS1.28 (0.85–1.91), 1.19 (0.76–1.86), 2.03 (−4.40–8.46), 1.52 (−4.78–7.84),
Start-to-max delta NEWS1.60 (1.07–2.40), 1.49 (0.92–2.42), 1.77 (−5.83–9.37), 0.00 (−7.76–7.77),

aAdjusted for age, sex, preoperative sepsis-related organ failure assessment score, and Charlson comorbidity index. OR, odds ratio; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval.