Additional analyses examined cognitive variables, symptoms, and course variables as predictors of individual factors.
Second, we investigated the relationship between the COBRA, objective cognitive measures and illness course variables.
Others (e.g. age, clinical course variables, comorbidities) were assessed on a month-to-month basis.
Fitted exponential decay functions are depicted in Figure 3 and calculated SWA time course variables presented in Table 2.
There were no other significant differences in SWA time course variables in either unstratified or stratified analyses.
Data of the whole 2-year clinical course variables and complete data of all the variables were obtained from 96 subjects (including deceased ones) and 65 subjects, respectively.
Kendler et al [ 21] have used clinical judgement to make ratings on a 4 point scale that reflected severity and duration for each of 9 symptom and 2 course variables which included depressive symptoms and manic symptoms.
Our results indicate that the administration of an adjuvant steroid therapy in combination with ceftriaxone plus levofloxacin significantly improved several clinical course variables such as the pO2/FiO2 ratio, the degree of radiological resolution and TRM score.
Hospital course variables included infection type, presence of severe sepsis, sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) for respiratory, renal hepatic, cardiovascular, hematologic, and neurologic systems, mortality in emergency department sepsis (MEDS) score, ICU admission, hospital mortality, and long-term mortality.
