Factors That Affect Oral Care Outcomes for Institutionalized Elderly

Table 4

Risk factors for fever among the subjects receiving the oral care program.

	Model 4
	Coefficient	95% CI		value
		Lower	Upper
Intercept	−3.205	−4.850	−1.559	0.000
Number of functional teeth	0.084	0.013	0.154	0.020
Meal care
Independent	Reference
Needs attention	1.076	0.061	2.091	0.038
Needs assistance	−1.970	−4.004	0.064	0.058
Food prescription
Ordinary	Reference
Sliced	1.491	0.249	2.734	0.019
Pureed	1.063	−0.280	2.406	0.121
Liquid	−23.185	—	—	—
Arousal during the meal
Arousal (+)	Reference
Arousal (−)	1.770	0.537	3.004	0.005
Candida
<750 cfu	Reference
≥750 cfu	1.281	0.018	2.544	0.047

Fifty-three subjects who received oral care and could be followed for more than one year were analyzed by multilevel generalized linear regression. Statistically significant factors were almost the same as those of previous models.