Prevalence of and factors associated with inappropriate Clostridioides difficile testing in a teaching hospital in Korea

Table 2 Multivariate logistic regression analyses for inappropriate Clostridioides difficile testing in hospital-onset settings

Variable	Odds ratio	95% CI	P value
Male	1.025	0.703–1.496	0.897
Age	0.995	0.982–1.008	0.477
Charlson comorbidity score	0.970	0.904–1.040	0.390
Patient location
General ward	1 (ref)
Intensive care unit	0.359	0.192–0.670	0.001
Emergency room	24.961	3.116–199.982	0.002
Physician specialty
Internal medicine	1 (ref)
Non-internal medicine	1.299	0.847–1.992	0.230

Multivariate logistic regression analysis included all significant variables in the univariate analysis, as well as sex and age
Bold values indicate significant differences. CI, confidence interval

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