Table 4 In-patient and out-patient group clinical characteristics and logistic regression analysis of the correlations between olfactory and gustatory scores at each observation time and the need for hospitalization
In-patient group | Out-patient group | Mann-Whitney U test p-value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N° of patients N° (%) | 30 (28.3%) | 76 (71.7%) | |||||
Body temperature Mean (SD) | 38.1 °C (0.36) | 37.6 °C (0.34) | < 0.001 | ||||
Oxygen saturation Mean (SD) | 92.5% (1.36) | 94.9% (1.62) | < 0.001 | ||||
Logistic regression analysis | |||||||
Observation time | Hospitalized group | Not-hospitalized group | B coefficient | Expected B coefficient | 95% confidence interval for expected B coefficient | Pvalue | |
Lower limit | Upper limit | ||||||
Olfactory score Mean (SD) | DV: Hospitalization IV: Olfactory score | ||||||
T0 | 42.3 (38.2) | 45.4 (38.1) | 0.003 | 1.002 | 0.991 | 1.013 | 0.72 |
T1 | 52.7 (38.2) | 58.7 (31) | 0.006 | 1.006 | 0.993 | 1.018 | 0.4 |
T2 | 62 (36.6) | 76.6 (26.1) | 0.016 | 1.016 | 1.002 | 1.030 | 0.03 |
Gustatory score Mean (SD) | DV: Hospitalization IV: Gustatory score | ||||||
T0 | 1.6 (1.4) | 2 (1.6) | 0.186 | 1.205 | 0.912 | 1.591 | 0.19 |
T1 | 2.9 (1.1) | 3 (1) | 0.197 | 1.407 | 0.833 | 1.778 | 0.31 |
T2 | 2.9 (1.1) | 3.5 (0.7) | 0.801 | 2.227 | 1.280 | 3.875 | 0.005 |