The Association between Delirium and In-Hospital Falls: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Delirium Screening Program

Table 3

Multivariable logistic regression adjusted odds ratio for falls.

	Odds ratio (OR)	95% lower OR	95% upper OR	value
bCAM positive	2.809	2.125	3.696	0.0001
Age 65+ (ref. 18–64)	1.152	0.891	1.485	0.2780
Sex: male (ref. female)	0.702	0.545	0.900	0.0053
Marital status: married (ref. unmarried)	0.763	0.594	0.978	0.0328
Distance to MUSC > 50	1.181	0.925	1.509	0.1821
Poverty	1.237	0.962	1.582	0.0961
Anticholinergics	1.658	1.248	2.228	0.0004
Antipsychotic	1.815	1.416	2.328	0.0001
Opioid	1.316	0.897	1.992	0.1648
Benzo	2.033	1.562	2.658	0.0001
Dementia	0.733	0.395	1.249	0.2666
Alcohol abuse	1.370	0.927	1.987	0.1126
Congestive heart failure	1.238	0.919	1.650	0.1580
Cerebrovascular disease	1.458	1.020	2.050	0.0391
Peptic ulcer disease	2.283	1.234	3.881	0.0104
Cancer	1.368	1.149	1.033	0.0292
Liver disease	1.391	1.206	0.946	0.0915
Service specialty: medicine (ref. medicine)
ICU	3.638	0.971	9.821	0.0545
Neurology	0.915	0.612	1.344	0.6556
OBGYN	2.824	1.475	5.036	0.0026
Surgery	1.134	0.846	1.516	0.3985