Prediction of patients requiring intensive care for COVID-19: development and validation of an integer-based score using data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of South Korea

Table 2 Predictors of patients requiring intensive care unit care in multivariate logistic regression

Variables	Odds ratio	Lower 95% CI	Upper 95% CI	Std error
Age^a	1.039	1.029	1.050	0.005
Sex, female	0.369	0.280	0.487	0.141
Initial body temperature on admission^a	1.506	1.234	1.835	0.101
Hemoptysis	5.371	1.737	15.539	0.554
Dyspnea	5.124	3.846	6.834	0.147
Chronic kidney disease	4.119	1.921	8.714	0.385
ADL score 1^b	4.113	2.751	6.122	0.204
ADL score 2^b	8.753	5.771	13.285	0.212

CI confidence interval, Std Error standard error, ADL activities of daily living
^aContinuous variables
^bADL score of 1 represents partially dependent and 2 represents totally dependent on others

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