Research Article
Impact of HbA1c Measurement on Hospital Readmission Rates: Analysis of 70,000 Clinical Database Patient Records
Table 4
Coefficients of noninteraction terms estimated from the final logistic regression model.
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“Diagnosis” stands for a primary diagnosis with possible values: “circulatory” for icd9: 390–459, 785, “digestive” for icd9: 520–579, 787, “genitourinary” for icd9: 580–629, 788, “diabetes” for icd9: 250.xx, “injury” for icd9: 800–999, “musculoskeletal” for icd9: 710–739, “neoplasms” for icd9: 140–239, “respiratory” for icd9: 460–519, 786, and “other” for otherwise. “HbA1c” variable has four values: “not measured” when the test was not measured, “normal” if the test was measured and the result was normal, “high, changed” when the result of HbA1c test was high and diabetic mediations were changed, and “high, not changed” when the result of HbA1c test was high but diabetic mediations were not changed. *Coefficients significant at the 0.01 significance level. |