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Table 3 Analysis for Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) referrals and approvals and readmission within 28 days

From: Targeted individual exercise programmes for older medical patients are feasible, and may change hospital and patient outcomes: a service improvement project

 

Usual Care group n (%)

FMP group n (%)

Odds ratio

Z score

p-value

95% CI

Statistical significance

Trend in favour of intervention

ACAT referrals

10 (42%)

27 (17%)

0.228

-3.06

p = 0.002

0.089, 0.588

 

ACAT approvals

8 (33%)

25 (15%)

0.307

-2.35

p = 0.019

0.115, 0.822

 

Readmissions within 28 days

4 (17%)

14 (9%)

0.412

-1.43

p = 0.153

0.122, 1.389