Discharge or admit? Emergency department management of incidental pulmonary embolism in patients with cancer: a retrospective study

Table 3 Multivariate logistic regression model of factors associated with hospital admission

	SE	Wald	P	OR	95% CL for OR
	SE	Wald	P	OR	Lower	Upper
Age	0.023	4.556	0.033*	1.051	1.004	1.100
Sex	0.518	2.272	0.132	0.458	0.166	1.264
Race (reference: Black)		7.688	0.053
Hispanic	0.710	0.194	0.659	0.731	0.182	2.943
Other	0.997	4.460	0.035	0.122	0.017	0.859
Non-Hispanic white	2.255	4.147	0.042	0.010	0.000	0.842
Cancer type (liquid^a vs. solid)	0.950	2.271	0.132	4.188	0.650	26.975
Cancer stage (reference: 0)		9.052	0.060
I	40192.970	0.000	>0.999	0.000	0.000
II	1.172	0.722	0.396	0.370	0.037	3.673
III	1.059	1.657	0.198	0.256	0.032	2.039
IV	1.319	7.336	0.007	0.028	0.002	0.373
ECOG PS (reference: 0)		5.537	0.237
1	19503.505	0.000	0.999	0.000	0.000
2	19503.505	0.000	0.999	0.000	0.000
3	19503.505	0.000	0.999	0.000	0.000
4	19503.505	0.000	0.999	0.000	0.000
Charlson comorbidity index (age unadjusted)	0.209	0.308	0.579	0.891	0.592	1.341
Tachycardia (>100 beats/min)	0.643	5.249	0.022*	0.229	0.065	0.808
Hypotension (systolic <100 mmHg)	1.397	2.268	0.132	0.122	0.008	1.886
Tachypnea (>20 breaths/min)	1.402	1.126	0.289	4.427	0.284	69.090
Hypoxemia (oxygen saturation <93%)	1.116	11.110	0.001*	0.024	0.003	0.216
Location of incidental PE (reference: subsegmental)		18.526	<0.001*
Segmental	14449.425	0.000	0.999	17913173674.808	0.000
Main/lobar pulmonary artery	0.797	14.731	<0.001*	21.281	4.465	101.428
Saddle	0.628	1.120	0.290	1.943	0.568	6.645
Constant	19503.505	0.000	0.999	722285828219.644

Abbreviations: CL confidence limit, ECOG PS Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status, OR odds ratio, PE pulmonary embolism, SE standard error
^aIncludes multiple myeloma, lymphoma, leukemia, stem cell transplant
*Significant at P < 0.05

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