RETRACTED ARTICLE: Predictors of sternal wound infection post cardiac surgery in a Saudi Centre: a case control study

Table 3 The final multivariate conditional logistic regression model

	B	Sig.	OR	95% CI for (OR)
Inpatient Days	0.061	0.024	1.054	1.007	1.104
Graft 1 vs 0	2.327	0.166	3.456	0.865	13.816
Graft 2 vs 0	3.456	0.062	10.936	1.602	74.636
Graft 3 vs 0	− 1.073	0.473	0.179	0.012	2.670
HbA1c	0.084	0.546	1.087	0.840	1.405
Wt	− 0.071	0.037	0.937	0.877	1.000
BMI	0.243	0.021	1.249	1.039	1.501
Periop Blood glucose^a	− 0.105	0.034	1.018	1.004	1.032
EuroSCORE II	2.681	0.154	0.926	0.796	1.077
CHG 1 vs 0	0.017	0.020	17.729	0.041	753.750
Transfusion 1 vs 0	1.256	0.218	3.366	0.600	18.888
Transfusion 2 vs 0	1.272	0.115	2.878	0.706	11.737
Transfusion 3 vs 0	1.168	0.096	3.529	0.927	13.442
Rexploration 1 vs 0	0.849	0.233	1.850	0.513	6.669
Surgery Time	0.240	0.172	1.187	0.890	1.584

Graft Conduit: 0 = No Graft (Ref), 1 = LIMA + SVG, 2 = LIMA + RIMA, 3 = Other
Diabetes: 0 = non-diabetic, 1 = diabetic. 0 = No Blood Transfusion (Ref), 1 = Packed
RBCs, 2 = FFP and/or platelets, 3 = RBCs + FFP/platelets
^awithin 24 h of surgery
CHG = Chlorhexidine gluconate antiseptic shortage

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