In-hospital mortality for aspiration pneumonia in a tertiary teaching hospital: A retrospective cohort review from 2008 to 2018

Table 4 Length of stay and mortality as a competing risk

	HR	Confidence interval (95%)	p-value
Age (≥ 65: < 65)	5.25	2.99–9.23	< 0.001
CCI	0.97	0.88–1.06	0.48
Year from study start	1.03	0.98–1.09	0.29
Gender (F:M)	0.86	0.59–1.26	0.45
Invasive mechanical ventilation (Yes: No)	0.62	0.41–0.95	0.03
SLP intervention (Yes:No)	0.50	0.35–0.72	< 0.001

HR Hazard ratio, CCI Charlson comorbidity index, SLP Speech language pathology

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