Pilot study of a novel serum mRNA gene panel for diagnosis of acute septic arthritis

Table 2 Multivariate logistic regression analysis for the prediction of infection

	Effect estimate	Std. Error	t value	P value
Intercept	0.833	0.577	1.443	0.199
CRP	-0.022	0.015	-1.488	0.187
ESR	-0.001	0.004	-0.213	0.839
WBC	-0.001	0.024	-0.043	0.967
synovial WBC	0.000	0.000	0.438	0.677
synovial % PMN	-0.001	0.007	-0.149	0.887
Sepsis metascore	0.595	0.210	2.831	0.030
Residual standard error: 0.4478 on 6 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.6275			Adjusted R-squared: 0.2551
F-statistic: 1.685

WBC: White blood cell; ESR: Erythrocyte sedimentation rate; CRP: C-reactive protein; PMN: Polymorphonuclear cells.