Transitional care interventions reduce unplanned hospital readmissions in high-risk older adults

Table 2 Unplanned hospital readmissions in 28 days - Cox proportional hazards regression model

	β	Hazard Ratio	95% CI	p
Randomised Group
Control group	referent group
Exercise only group	−0.69	0.501	0.19–1.28	0.148
N-HaT^cgroup	−0.97	0.379	0.13–1.07	0.067
ExN-HaT^dgroup	−1.28	0.278	0.09–0.88	0.029
Co-existing renal disease	0.98	2.659	1.18–5.97	0.018
Geriatric Depression Scale^a	0.18	1.191	1.03–1.37	0.017
CDM Self efficacy scale^b	0.46	1.589	1.20–2.11	0.001

^aGeriatric Depression Scale Short-Form, scale 0–15, where 0 = no depressive symptoms, and 15 = large number of depressive symptoms with a high risk of depression
^bChronic Disease Self Efficacy Scale [35] – Management of chronic disease sub-scale, where higher scores indicate higher levels of self efficacy
^cNurse Home/telephone follow-up
^d Exercise and Nurse Home/telephone follow-up

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