Predictors of Inpatient Utilization among Veterans with Dementia

Table 3

Predisposing factors^∗ for veterans’ utilization of inpatient hospitalization.

	Univariate logistic regression (𝑛=296)			Univariate negative binomial (𝑛=104)
	Estimate	𝑃 value	Confidence interval	Estimate	𝑃 value	Confidence interval
Patient
Age	1.002	0.8998	0.972–1.032	0.0108	0.2804	−0.0088–0.0305
Gender	0.830	0.8316	0.148–4.641	−0.0839	0.8864	−1.2356–1.0677
Male
Female^†
Race	0.970	0.9367	0.460–2.045	0.1696	0.4654	−0.2859–0.6251
White^†
Other
Education	0.817	0.4130	0.503–1.326	0.0086	0.9546	−0.2865–0.3037
≤High school
>High school^†
Marital status	0.502	0.0312	0.269–0.940	0.2169	0.2955	−0.1895–0.6233
Married^†
Not married
Caregiver
Age	1.014	0.1801	0.993–1.036	−0.0067	0.2959	−0.0192–0.0058
Gender	1.057	0.9314	0.299–3.731	−0.1214	0.7707	−0.9379–0.6951
Male
Female^†
Race	1.183	0.6298	0.597–2.346	0.0194	0.9302	−0.4153–0.4542
White^†
Other
Education	1.276	0.3367	0.776–2.009	0.0733	0.6377	−0.2317–0.3782
≤High school
>High school^†
Marital status	0.734	0.4243	0.343–1.569	0.0665	0.7846	−0.4103–0.5433
Married^†
Not married
Family/friends who helped	1.014	0.6482	0.956–1.075	−0.0143	0.4972	−0.0557–0.0271

∗Controlled for site, ^†reference category.