Research Article

Population Based Trends in the Incidence of Hospital Admission for the Diagnosis of Hepatorenal Syndrome: 1998–2011

Table 1

Results of the fitted segmented linear regression model, characterizing the change in the yearly slope after 2008.

DiagnosisParameterEstimateStd. error-value value

HRSSlope before change point2.260.743.02 0.0030
Change of slope40.093.1912.56<0.0001

Note that because the change point was identified based on visual inspection, this value must be interpreted liberally, since it is based on a post hoc test.