Identifying Risk Factors Associated with Inappropriate Use of Acid Suppressive Therapy at a Community Hospital

Table 3

Analysis of maximum likelihood estimates.

Parameter		Standard error	Wald Chi-square	OR	95% CI	value
Sex	Female	0.8362	4.6347	6.050	1.175–31.156	0.0313
Age		0.0130	8.8918	0.962	0.938–0.987	0.0029
Number of handoffs between services	≥1	1.0505	4.4205	9.103	1.162–71.340	0.0355
Length of stay		0.0911	3.5155	1.186	0.992–1.418	0.0608