Bacterial infection triggers and complicates acute-on-chronic liver failure in patients with hepatitis B virus-decompensated cirrhosis: A retrospective cohort study

Table 4 Multivariate competing risk analysis of risk factors for in-hospital survival

Parameters	Estimate	Standard error	sHR (95%CI)	P value
	Without ACLF at admission
Bacterial infection	1.1872	0.2708	3.28 (1.93-5.57)	< 0.001
Total bilirubin at admission	0.0292	0.0104	1.03 (1.01-1.05)	< 0.01
Albumin at admission	-0.7695	0.2357	0.46 (0.29-0.74)	< 0.01
Sodium at admission	-0.0738	0.0178	0.93 (0.9-0.96)	< 0.001
	ACLF at admission
Pneumonia	0.6250	0.2106	1.87 (1.24-2.82)	< 0.01
Hepatic encephalopathy	0.5453	0.2068	1.73 (1.15-2.59)	< 0.01
Total bilirubin at admission	0.0277	0.0081	1.03 (1.01-1.04)	< 0.001
Albumin at admission	-0.7110	0.1945	0.49 (0.34-0.72)	< 0.001

sHR: Subdistribution hazard ratio; CI: Confidence interval; ACLF: Acute-on-chronic liver failure.