Age-Based Differences in Care Setting Transitions over the Last Year of Life

Table 2

Summary of logistic regression findings for younger and older subjects (𝑛=10,897; reference category—older subjects).

	Predictors	B	S.E	Wald	df	P	OR*
1	Total stay days	.01	.00	67.27	1	.00	1.01
2	Number of diagnoses	.03	.00	78.31	1	.00	1.03
3	Number of procedures	−.08	.02	24.52	1	.00	.92
4	Number of surgical procedures	−.09	.02	17.76	1	.00	.92
5	Number of care setting transitions	−.09	.01	69.01	1	.00	.91
6	Number of outpatient clinic visits	−.02	.00	34.46	1	.00	.98
7	Number of outpatient clinic procedures	.00	.00	2.69	1	.10	1.00
8	Number of emergency room visits	−.02	.01	15.61	1	.00	.98
9	Number of emergency room procedures	−.03	.01	18.07	1	.00	.98
	Constant	1.55	.04

*OR stands for Odds Ratios.