Determine the factors affecting the time to recovery of children with bacterial meningitis at Jigjiga university referral hospital in the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia: using the parametric shared frailty and AFT models

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of covariates and median duration for survival time of bacterial patient

Variable	Category	No of patients	Median	95% CI	Status of the patients
					Censored		Even (Recovery)
					Count	Percent (%)	Count	Percent (%)
Sex	Female	221	14	[13, 15]	35	39.3	186	41.7
Sex	Male	314	12	[11, 13]	54	60.7	260	58.3
Age group	< 1 month	3	8	[7, 9]	2	2.2	2	0.4
	1–12 months	243	12	[12, 13]	35	39.3	209	46.9
	13–36 months	109	12	[11, 13]	19	21.3	90	20.2
	37–60 months	48	12	[11, 14]	11	12.4	37	8.3
	> 60 months	132	12	[13, 17]	7	7.9	41	9.2
Vaccination status	No	158	13	[12, 14]	61	68.5	97	21.7
Vaccination status	Yes	377	12	[11, 13]	28	31.5	349	78.3
Pathogens	Streptococcus pneumonia	270	12	[11, 14]	22	24.7	166	37.2
	Hemophilic influenza	163	12	[11, 14]	58	65.2	202	45.3
	Neisseria meningitides	80	13	[12, 14]	9	10.1	64	14.3
	Others	22	15	[12, 16]	0	0.0	14	3.1
Drug regime	Ceftriaxone and vancomycin	120	14	[12, 15]	24	27.0	96	21.5
	Ceftrazidime and vancomycin	44	13	[11, 18]	10	11.2	34	7.6
	Ceftriaxone and dexamethine	234	12	[12, 14]	36	40.4	198	44.4
	Cefoperatone and sulbactan	24	13	[11, 14]	2	2.2	12	2.7
	Ciprofloxacin and ceftriaxone	2	12	[10, 13]	1	1.1	1	0.2
	Ampiciline and gentamycin	110	12	[11, 13]	14	15.7	96	21.5
	Others	11	15	[11, 17]	2	2.2	9	2.0
Residence place of the patients	Rural	30	15	[13, 18]	7	7.9	23	5.2
Residence place of the patients	Urban	505	12	[12, 13]	82	92.1	423	94.8
Comorbidies	Yes	267	13	[11, 13]	19	21.3	248	55.6
Comorbidies	No	268	12	[12, 14]	70	78.7	198	44.4
Breast feeding of the patients	Yes	180	12	[13, 15]	52	58.4	142	31.8
Breast feeding of the patients	No	355	13	[11, 13]	37	41.6	304	68.2

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