Features Predictive of Death in 792 Patients <15 Years with Shigellosis in a Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis.

*Median weight-for-age is based on United States National Center for Health Statistics standard17.
Analysis was limited to 451 (86%) of the 525 patients discharged improved, and 65 (78%) of the 83 patients who died for whom information on each of the variables entered into the final iteration of the multiple logistic regression analysis was available.
Variables significant (P<0.05) in the bivariate analysis but excluded from the multiple logistic regression analysis because information was available for a limited number of the 516 patients were blood glucose, available for 127 (25%) patients, and serum protein, available in 163 (32%) patients.