Table 5: Analyses of the effects of adjunctive treatments of surgical, critically ill patients with sepsis by inverse probability of treatment weighting

Treatments	Multiple Cox regression analyses for in-hospital death
	n	Adjusted HR	95% CI	P-value
Intravenous immunoglobulins	33	2.834	1.085-7.404	0.059
Renal replacement therapy	18	0.855	0.361-2.025	0.733
PMX	21	2.356	0.872-6.371	0.229

Abbreviations: HR: hazard ratio; CI: confidence interval; PMX: endotoxin-absorbing therapy using polymyxin B.