Dysphagia as a predictor of outcome and transition to palliative care among middle cerebral artery ischemic stroke patients

Table 3 Multivariate logistic regression analysis of statistically significant predictors of early transition to palliative level of care

Variable	Sig	OR* (95% CI)
Age	<0.001	1.105 (1.056-1.155)
Atrial fibrillation	0.529	0.754 (0.313-1.816)
Left vs Right Location of infarct	0.039	0.417 (0.182-0.956)
Admit NIHSS score*	0.017	3.038 (1.222-7.555)
Intraarterial tPA	<0.001	7.106 (2.541-19.873)
Weekday vs. weekend patient admission	0.239	1.690 (0.706-4.049)
Ability to be assessed on 1^st swallow evaluation	<0.001	0.053 (0.022-0.131)

*NIHSS-national institutes of health stroke scale score, tPA- tissue plasminogen activator, OR- odds ratio.

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