Emergency department consultations for respiratory symptoms revisited: exploratory investigation of longitudinal trends in patients’ perspective on care, health care utilization, and general and mental health, from a multicenter study in Berlin, Germany

Table 3 Logistic regression model for rating ED visit as beneficial

Rating of ED visit as beneficial, 304 complete cases
Independent variable		Coefficient B	Standard error	p value	Odds ratio	OR 95% CI lower bound	OR 95% CI upper bound
Age		−0.011	0.010	0.249	0.989	0.970	1.008
Sex (male)		0.917	0.335	0.006	2.501	1.298	4.819
Pneumonia		1.079	0.458	0.018	2.941	1.199	7.214
Respiratory failure		1.542	0.638	0.016	4.676	1.338	16.342
Self-referral		0.854	0.344	0.013	2.350	1.197	4.613
Triage (higher urgency)		0.305	0.335	0.363	1.357	0.703	2.619
Education^a	-intermediate	−0.160	0.450	0.721	0.852	0.353	2.056
Education^a	-high	−0.252	0.481	0.600	0.777	0.303	1.996
Migrant^b		−0.303	0.418	0.469	0.739	0.326	1.676

Model performance metrics: AUC 0.74; Nagelkerke’s R² 0.17; Hosmer-Lemeshow test χ² = 7.302, df = 8, p = 0.504
^aEducation: CASMIN-scale, trichotomized, reference category: low
^bMigrant: first generation (not born in Germany)

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