Adjustment for the effect of antipyretic therapy for patients with sepsis by treating temperature as continuous variable (maximum body temperature during ICU stay).

¶ The main effect of Tmax (OR = 1.15) is exponentiation of the slope in the regression model when no antipyretic therapy was given (antipyretic therapy = 1). ‡ The coefficient of the interaction term was the difference of the slope in groups with and without antipyretic therapy. An OR>1 indicates a positive coefficient and steeper slope of the antipyretic therapy group than non-antipyretic group. Adjustment for the effect of antipyretic therapy for patients with sepsis by treating temperature as continuous variable (maximum body temperature during ICU stay).