Effectiveness of an intermediate care hospital on readmissions, mortality, activities of daily living and use of health care services among hospitalized adults aged 60 years and older—a controlled observational study

Table 3 Hazard ratios (HRs) for death 1 year after hospitalization for persons 60 years and older

Municipality	Persondays	Deaths, n (%)	Crude HR^b	Adjusted HR^c	95 % CI^c	p-value^c
CM^a	40,429	14 (11.8)		1
ICHM^a	71,321	25 (12.0)	1.01	0.93	0.48–1.81	0.840
ICHM-ICH^a	36,420	17 (15.5)	1.34	1.01	0.49–2.08	0.981

^aCM Comparative municipality, ICHM Intermediate care hospital municipality, ICHM-ICH Patients in the ICHM discharged directly to the ICH (Intermediate care hospital)
^bUnadjusted
^cAdjusted for age, gender, number of diagnoses at index hospital stay, functional status at index hospital stay and having primary health care services at index stay (yes/no)

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