Characterizing deaths among adult patients with severe acute respiratory infection: during the pre- and COVID-19 pandemic periods in Bangladesh, 2018–2022

Table 3 Factors associated with SARI deaths in adults enrolled during the COVID-19 pandemic period (N = 521)

In models 1–4, the direct relationship between outcome and explanatory variables/potential predictors of each level was presented without adjusting the variables from other levels. Model 5 included the smoking variable along with age and sex variable as covariate. Model 6 included at least one co-morbid conditions, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 virus detected with the covariates age and sex variables. Model 7 included duration of symptom prior to admission in days and length of hospital stay in days variables, along with the covariates age, sex, influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 detected variables

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