Significant predictors for indolent ulceration with treatment of suspected microbial keratitis
| Characteristics | Indolent ulceration | Risk ratio | 95% CI | p Value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | % | ||||||||
| “Crude” estimates of risk ratio with no adjustment for confounding factors | |||||||||
| Previous ocular disease | 14/62 | 22.6 | 12.65 | 1.72–93.1 | <0.001 | ||||
| No previous disease | 1/56 | 1.8 | |||||||
| Topical steroids before diagnosis | 7/19 | 36.8 | 4.56 | 1.88–11.08 | 0.0027 | ||||
| No prior steroid use | 8/99 | 8.1 | |||||||