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 5 The association between receipt of rehabilitation therapy services and emergency department use

Outcome: 3-month emergency department use
	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	0.73	0.69–0.77	0.73	0.69–0.78	0.73	0.69–0.78
Home care rehabilitation therapy and other services	0.83	0.79–0.86	0.81	0.77–0.84	0.83	0.8–0.87
Outcome: 12-month emergency department use
	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	0.79	0.75–0.84	0.78	0.74–0.83	0.79	0.75–0.83
Home care rehabilitation therapy and other services	0.79	0.76–0.83	0.79	0.75–0.82	0.8	0.77–0.84

^* Backwards elimination model covariates (outcome 3-month emergency department use): age, sex, ADL Scale, DRS, CHESS, bladder continence, bowel continence, falls, Ontario marginalization summary score, and number of chronic conditions
^†Backwards elimination model covariates (outcome 12-month emergency department use): sex, age, CPS, DRS, CHESS, bowel continence, falls, pain, number of chronic conditions
^‡Model 2-age, sex, and number of chronic conditions
^§ models contain covariates that align with the clinical and social characteristics components of the theoretical model discussed earlier

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