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Table 4 Prognostic and Follow-Up Model Results for Gt2_ADLs and Gt1_ADLs

From: Functional status decline as a measure of adverse events in home health care: an observational study

 

Prognostic Models

Follow-Up Models

Parameter

Gt2_ADLs

Gt1_ADLs

Gt2_ADLs

Gt1_ADLs

Only Significant Odds Ratios (OR) Reported

OR

OR

OR

OR

Demographics

    

Female

    

Age 75 to 84

  

0.84

 

Age 85 and over

1.34

1.12

 

1.28

White

    

Non-White

   

1.11

Physician Availability

    

Highest quintile of availability

0.73

   

Lowest quintile of availability

1.30

1.17

1.30

1.18

Financial Factors

    

Highest quintile of income

    

Lowest quintile of income

1.26

1.24

 

1.13

Financial Difficulties

    

Language

    

Spanish speaking only

    

Translator needed

 

0.87

  

Payment Source

    

Medicaid

    

Medicare and Medicaid

    

Private or other payer

0.62

0.73

 

0.69

Managed care

  

0.65

 

Living Arrangements

    

Lives alone

0.82

 

0.84

 

Lives with spouse

    

Lives with Family

 

1.10

 

1.12

Support/Assistance

    

Assistance, none

1.41

1.20

  

Assistance in place of residence

    

Assistance, out of residence

    

Caregiver is spouse

    

Pain Status

    

pain, daily

0.76

0.84

0.82

0.87

Intractable pain

    

Referral/Personal Health

    

comorbidities (mean)

 

1.06

1.08

 

Discharged from hospital within two weeks prior to admittance

0.75

0.80

 

0.80

Discharged from other facility within two weeks prior

 

0.82

 

0.80

Referral from a public hospital

1.43

1.18

  

Life expectancy

2.02

1.42

  

Medical regimen change within two weeks prior

 

0.89

0.69

0.87

Obesity

  

0.73

 

Primary Diagnosis Severity

    

Referral/Personal Health

    

Poor prognosis

1.78

1.24

 

1.30

Poor rehabilitation

 

1.13

1.37

 

High Risk Factor Summary Score

    

Smoking

    

Weighted ADL Summary Score

1.25

1.07

1.18

1.06

Sensory Status

    

Vision impairment

 

1.13

  

Hearing impairment

0.66

0.85

 

0.87

Speech impairment

 

1.39

1.46

1.39

Elimination Status

    

Urine incontinence

1.86

1.46

1.87

1.45

Urinary catheter

2.80

1.86

1.73

1.69

Bowel incontinence

1.63

1.33

1.83

1.65

Incontinence

    

Neurological/emotional

    

Cognitive impairment, mild

    

Cognitive impairment, high

    

Confusion

    

Depressed

    

Medication Assessment

    

unique number of drugs (mean)

    

number of drug classes (mean)

    

Psychotropic drug usage

    

Caregiver knowledgeable of Medications

 

1.13

 

1.12

ICD9 Codes of Primary Diagnosis

    

Circulatory without COPD

    

Dyspnea

0.85

0.86

0.79

0.89

Injury

   

0.79

Musculoskeletal

0.71

0.77

 

0.82

Neoplasm

1.47

1.29

1.92

1.26

nervous system diseases

1.67

1.38

1.38

1.34

Respiratory diseases

    

skin diseases

1.38

1.39

  

Skin lesion

   

1.15

Surgical wound

0.70

0.71

0.62

0.67

Among top ICD9 codes for agency

    

Congestive Heart Failure

 

1.25

  

Pressure Ulcer

1.56

1.28

2.19

1.50

  1. OR stands for Odds Ratio
  2. All odds ratios reported were significant at p < .05