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Table 2 Unadjusted and adjusted prevalence of Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol-Revised (CIWA-Ar) monitoring across subgroups of intensive care unit (ICU) patients treated for alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS)

From: Should the CIWA-Ar be the standard monitoring strategy for alcohol withdrawal syndrome in the intensive care unit?

Ā 

CIWA-Ar Assessmenta

Ā 

No

(nā€‰=ā€‰43)

No. (Row %)

Yes

(nā€‰=ā€‰54)

No. (Row %)

p-value

Adjusted Prevalenceb

95% CI

Age, years

50.0c (11.9)d

49.8c (12.2)d

0.936

*

*

Male

37 (46.8)

42 (53.2)

0.431

53.5

46.9ā€“60.0

Race

Ā Ā 

0.014

Ā Ā 

Ā AI/AN

1 (9.1)

10 (90.9)

Ā 

65.6

41.2ā€“89.9

Ā Black

7 (63.6)

4 (36.4)

Ā 

29.5

8.6ā€“50.3

Ā White

31 (44.3)

39 (55.7)

Ā 

60.3

54.5ā€“66.2

Ā Other

4 (80.0)

1 (20.0)

Ā 

18.1

0ā€“48.2

Latino/Hispanic

5

(45.5)

6 (54.6)

1.00

ā€“

ā€“

Non-English primary language

4 (57.1)

3 (42.9)

0.696

ā€“

ā€“

Single

32 (42.7)

43 (57.3)

0.628

ā€“

ā€“

Homeless

9 (34.6)

17 (65.4)

0.260

ā€“

ā€“

Severity of Illness

Ā Ā 

0.001

Ā Ā 

Ā Extreme

24 (70.6)

10 (29.4)

Ā 

57.7

44.1ā€“71.3

Ā Major

11 (29.7)

26 (70.3)

Ā 

53.0

43.6ā€“62.3

Ā Moderate

8 (33.3)

16 (66.7)

Ā 

54.5

44.3ā€“64.6

Ā Minor

0 (0)

2 (100)

Ā 

*

*

Intubated

34 (91.9)

3 (8.1)

ā€‰<ā€‰0.001

8.6

0ā€“19.6

Admitting service

Ā Ā 

0.326

ā€“

ā€“

Ā Medical ICU

18 (36.7)

31 (63.3)

Ā 

ā€“

ā€“

Ā Trauma ICU

13 (54.2)

11 (45.8)

Ā 

ā€“

ā€“

Ā Neurological ICU

12 (50.0)

12 (50.0)

Ā 

ā€“

ā€“

Prior-year hospitalization with AWS

3 (15.8)

16 (84.2)

0.009

65.4

47.0ā€“83.9

Positive serum/urine alcohol levele

20 (34.5)

38 (65.5)

0.022

52.7

45.4ā€“60.1

  1. CI confidence interval, A/AN American Indian/Alaska Native, * empty or unable to estimate,ā€“ ā€‰variable not included in multivariable regression analysis
  2. aAssessment completed within 24Ā h of ICU admission
  3. bEstimated using multivariable logistic regression including significant univariate associations (race, severity of illness, intubation, prior-year AWS, positive alcohol level) and other covariates selected a priori (age, sex) and the margins command in STATA; in the adjusted logistic regression analyses, only race and intubation were significantly associated with CIWA-Ar assessment (pā€‰=ā€‰0.018 and pā€‰<ā€‰0.001, respectively)
  4. cMean
  5. dStandard deviation
  6. eAssessment completed within 24Ā h of hospital presentation