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Table 5 Regression model showing risk of sustaining an aerodigestive foreign body adjusted for source of referral and socioeconomic Status

From: A case control study of the factors associated with occurrence of aerodigestive foreign bodies in children in a regional referral hospital in South Western Uganda

Characteristic

Odds Ratio

95 % Confidence Interval

p-value

Source of referral

Private health facility

1

  
 

Government health centre

0.11

0.04 – 0.34

<0.01*

 

Self

2.89

0.63 – 13.2

0.17

 

MRRH departments

2.69

0.46 – 15.78

0.27

Socioeconomic status

Lower

1

  
 

Middle

0.53

0.15 – 1.90

0.33

 

Upper

0.29

0.1 – 0.84

0.02*