The association between receipt of home care rehabilitation services and acute care hospital utilization in clients with multimorbidity following an acute care unit discharge: a retrospective cohort study

Table 3 The association between receipt of home care rehabilitation therapy services and hospital readmission

Outcome: 3-month readmission
	Unadjusted Model		Backwards Elimination Model^*		Model 2^‡
	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval
Other Home care services	Reference
Home care rehabilitation therapy only	0.78	0.73–0.83	0.77	0.72–0.82	0.78	0.73–0.83
Home care rehabilitation therapy and other services	0.85	0.80–0.89	0.81	0.77–0.85	0.85	0.81–0.89
Outcome: 12-month readmission
	Unadjusted Model		Backwards Elimination Model^†		Model 2
	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval
Other Home care services	Reference
Home care rehabilitation therapy only	0.81	0.76–0.85	0.79	0.75–0.84	0.8	0.76–0.85
Home care rehabilitation therapy and other services	0.85	0.81–0.89	0.82	0.79–0.86	0.85	0.82–0.89

^* Backwards elimination model covariates (outcome 3-month readmission): sex, ADL Scale, Pain Scale, CPS, DRS, CHESS, bowel continence, falls, and number of chronic conditions
^†Backwards elimination model covariates (outcome 12-month readmission): sex, age, ADL, Pain Scale, CPS, DRS, CHESS, bowel incontinence, bladder incontinence, falls, number of chronic conditions
^‡Model 2: age sex, number of chronic conditions
^§ Each model contains covariates that align with the clinical characteristics component of the theoretical model discussed earlier; social characteristics were considered but not retained in the final models

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