Nurse staffing, direct nursing care hours and patient mortality in Taiwan: the longitudinal analysis of hospital nurse staffing and patient outcome study

Table 2 Empirical Results for the Mixed Effect Logit Model

	Coefficient (z value)	OR [95% CI]
Direct Nursing Care Hours	-0.935	0.393
(if DNCH > Median)	(-4.05)**	[0.245, 0.617]
Nurse Manpower	-0.530	0.589
(if Nurses > Median)	(-2.38)*	[0.381, 0.911]
Medical Center	0.017	1.017
	(0.05)	[0.521, 1.988]
Regional Hospital	0.761	2.140
	(2.95)**	[1.291, 3.546]
District Hospital (Reference Group)	------	------
Hospital Scale	0.100	1.105
(if # of Beds > Median)	(0.47)	[0.731, 1.670]
Age	0.597	1.816
(if > Median)	(3.27)**	[1.270, 2.598]
Length of Stay	0.696	2.007
(if LOS > Median)	(4.08)**	[1.436, 2.804]
Internal Medicine Ward	-2.245 (-7.97)**	0.106 [0.061, 0.184]
Surgical Ward	-3.785 (-11.03)**	0.023 [0.012, 0.044]
Comprehensive Ward	-1.845 (-5.40)**	0.158 [0.081, 0.309]
Intensive Care Unit (Reference Group)	------	------
Time Variable	-0.004 (-0.11)	------
Constant	2.512 (5.97)**	------
ICC with intercept only		65.30%
ICC with final fitted model		38.58%
	H₀: Selected Model vs. H_A: Saturated Model
Hosmer-Lemeshow Test	$χ_{df = 8}^{2} = 8.20$ p value = 0.41

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