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Table 3 30-day outcomes of hospital admission with urgent CT scan of the head and all-cause mortality

From: Higher dose versus lower dose of antiviral therapy in the treatment of herpes zoster infection in the elderly: a matched retrospective population-based cohort study

 

Number of events (Percent)

Relative risk

P-value

 

Higher dosea(n = 23,256)

Lower doseb(Referent) (n = 3,876)

[95% confidence interval]

 

Hospital admission with urgent CT scan of the head

247 (1.06%)

43 (1.11%)

0.96 [0.69 to 1.33]

0.79

All-cause mortality

63 (0.27%)

15 (0.39%)

0.70 [0.40 to 1.23]

0.21

  1. Abbreviations: CT, Computed Tomography.
  2. aHigher dose of antiviral defined as 4,000 mg/day for acyclovir, 3,000 mg/day for valacyclovir, and 1,500 mg/day for famciclovir.
  3. bA lower dose of antiviral defined as 3,200 mg/day, 2,400 mg/day, 1,600 mg/day or 800 mg/day for acyclovir, 2,000 mg/day, 1,500 mg/day, 1,000 mg/day, or 500 mg/day for valacyclovir, and 1,000 mg/day, 500 mg/day, or 350 mg/day for famciclovir.