Significant predictors for slow healing with treatment of suspected microbial keratitis
| Characteristics | Slow healing | Risk ratio | 95% CI | p Value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | % | ||||||||
| “Crude” estimates of risk ratio with no adjustment for confounding factors | |||||||||
| Culture positive ulcer | 13/49 | 26.5 | 4.58 | 1.59–13.2 | 0.0016 | ||||
| Culture negative | 4/69 | 5.8 | |||||||
| Any previous ocular disease | 16/62 | 25.8 | 14.45 | 1.98–105.48 | <0.001 | ||||
| No previous ocular disease | 1/56 | 1.8 | |||||||