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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Apr 8.
Published in final edited form as: Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2023 Feb 19;101(4):773–786. doi: 10.1002/ccd.30595

TABLE 2.

Cox regression for inpatient mortality.

Cox regression

Hazard ratio p Value 95% CI
Frailty risk
 Low 1.00
 Intermediate 4.10 0.000 [3.91–4.31]
 High 2.56 0.000 [2.33–2.82]
PCI
 Medical management 1.00
 Percutaneous coronary intervention 0.48 0.000 [0.45–0.52]
Intervention within 24 h 1.25 0.000 [1.16–1.35]
Hospital rank by procedure volume (quintile)
 1st 1.00
 2nd 1.08 0.320 [0.93–1.25]
 3rd 1.05 0.488 [0.91–1.22]
 4th 1.00 0.947 [0.86–1.15]
 5th 1.01 0.850 [0.87–1.18]
Age over 75 years 1.54 0.000 [1.48–1.60]
Female (sex) 1.08 0.000 [1.05–1.12]
Calendar year
 2016 1.00
 2017 0.96 0.132 [0.91–1.01]
 2018 0.97 0.274 [0.92–1.02]
 2019 0.94 0.027 [0.89–0.99]
Insurance carrier, cleaned
 Medicare 1.00
 Medicaid 0.73 0.000 [0.68–0.77]
 Private insurance 0.73 0.000 [0.70–0.77]
 Self-pay 1.07 0.119 [0.98–1.16]
Median household income national quartile for patient ZIP code
 0–25th percentile 1.00
 26th–50th percentile (median) 1.02 0.386 [0.98–1.07]
 51st–75th percentile 0.95 0.050 [0.91–1.00]
 76th–100th percentile 0.98 0.415 [0.93–1.03]
Bed size of hospital
 Small 1.00
 Medium 1.04 0.244 [0.97–1.11]
 Large 1.03 0.394 [0.96–1.10]
Hospital urban-rural designation
 Large metropolitan areas with at least 1 million residents 1.00
 Small metropolitan areas with less than 1 million residents 1.10 0.013 [1.02–1.18]
 Micropolitan areas 1.07 0.250 [0.95–1.20]
 Not metropolitan or micropolitan (nonurban residual) 1.01 0.953 [0.69–1.49]
Teaching status of urban hospitals
 Metropolitan nonteaching 1.00
 Metropolitan teaching 1.00 0.932 [0.95–1.05]
 Nonmetropolitan hospital 1.00
Patient location: NCHS urban-rural code
 Central counties of metro areas of ≥1 million population 1.00
 Fringe counties of metro areas of ≥1 million population 0.93 0.002 [0.88–0.97]
 Counties in metro areas of 250,000–999,999 population 0.96 0.319 [0.89–1.04]
 Counties in metro areas of 50,000–249,999 population 1.01 0.766 [0.93–1.11]
 Micropolitan counties 1.01 0.763 [0.93–1.10]
 Not metropolitan or micropolitan counties 0.99 0.860 [0.90–1.10]
Admission day is a weekend 1.03 0.080 [1.00–1.07]
Congestive heart failure 0.86 0.000 [0.83–0.89]
Cardiac arrhythmias 1.63 0.000 [1.57–1.69]
Valvular disease 0.97 0.242 [0.93–1.02]
Renal failure 0.96 0.041 [0.92–1.00]
Diabetes 1.17 0.000 [1.13–1.21]
Hypertension 0.83 0.000 [0.80–0.86]
Dyslipidemia 0.64 0.000 [0.62–0.66]
History of smoking 0.85 0.000 [0.82–0.88]
History of PCI 0.95 0.543 [0.81–1.11]
History of CABG 1.14 0.000 [1.06–1.22]
History of carotid artery occlusion 0.66 0.000 [0.58–0.76]
History of chronic ischemic heart disease 0.65 0.000 [0.62–0.68]
History of myocardial infarction 1.00 0.904 [0.95–1.06]

Note: Cox proportional hazard regression analysis for inpatient mortality.

Abbreviations: CI, confidence intervals; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention.