Transmission and mortality risk assessment of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in China: results from 11-years' study

Table 4 Logistic regression analysis of risk factors for death in SFTS clusters

Impacting factor	β	S.E.	Wald χ²	P	OR	95% CI
Period from onset to diagnosis (days)	0.326	0.125	6.754	0.009	1.385	1.083–1.772
Gender
Male	1.00
Female	0.533	0.544	0.961	0.327	1.705	0.587–4.953
Age	0.091	0.031	8.700	0.003	1.095	1.031–1.163
Transmission route
Non-blood contact^a	1.00
Tick-bite/suspected tick bite	0.970	0.982	0.976	0.323	2.637	0.385–18.059
Blood contact^b	− 0.015	1.136	0.000	0.990	0.985	0.106–9.127
Not know	− 0.148	1.273	0.013	0.908	0.863	0.071–10.447

OR odds ration, CI confidence interval
^aNon-blood contact refers to contacting the patients’ fluids or secretions other than blood
^bBlood contact refers to contacting the patients’ blood, bloody fluids or secretions and the bleeding corpse

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