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. 2024 Sep 6;62(10):639–649. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000002048

TABLE 2.

Segmented Regression of Process Measures: Documented Family Interaction and Discharge After 2 pm

Documented Family Interaction (N=2496) Discharge After 2 pm (N=3619)
Characteristic OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI) P
Intervention group
 Pre
 Post 1.28 (0.82–2.01) 0.3 0.68 (0.53–0.87) 0.003
Time* 1.18 (1.12–1.24) <0.001 1.02 (1.00–1.05) 0.091
Time after* 0.81 (0.76–0.86) <0.001 1.01 (0.98–1.05) 0.5
Age 0.99 (0.98–1.00) 0.010 1.00 (0.99–1.00) 0.2
Gender
 Female
 Male 0.83 (0.67–1.04) 0.11 0.94 (0.82–1.08) 0.4
Ethnicity and race
 White non-Hispanic
 White Hispanic 0.78 (0.40–1.50) 0.5 1.17 (0.73–1.87) 0.5
 American Indian or AK Native 1.10 (0.50–2.45) 0.8 1.21 (0.79–1.85) 0.4
 Black or African-American 0.37 (0.17–0.83) 0.015 1.15 (0.72–1.84) 0.6
 Pacific Islander 1.61 (0.32–8.17) 0.6 1.14 (0.59–2.22) 0.7
 Other/unknown 1.19 (0.79–1.81) 0.4 1.00 (0.78–1.27) >0.9
Insurance
 Commercial
 Medicaid 0.72 (0.52–1.01) 0.056 1.15 (0.95–1.40) 0.2
 Medicare 0.89 (0.65–1.21) 0.5 1.00 (0.83–1.21) >0.9
 Other 0.74 (0.38–1.45) 0.4 1.24 (0.80–1.90) 0.3
 Workers comp 1.38 (0.72–2.65) 0.3 1.02 (0.61–1.70) >0.9
Planned admission 0.56 (0.43–0.73) <0.001 0.63 (0.52–0.76) <0.001
COVID positive 2.21 (1.05–4.65) 0.037 1.32 (0.95–1.83) 0.10
LACE total acuity score 1.10 (1.05–1.14) <0.001 1.03 (1.00–1.05) 0.034
Hospital unit
 Surgical A
 Surgical B 0.08 (0.06–0.11) <0.001 1.44 (1.19–1.73) <0.001
 Medicine A 0.16 (0.09–0.30) <0.001 0.89 (0.64–1.25) 0.5
 Medicine B 1.18 (0.66–2.10) 0.6 0.71 (0.54–0.93) 0.013
 Medicine C 0.50 (0.25–1.02) 0.057 0.73 (0.54–0.98) 0.039
Discharge destination
 Home
 Home health 1.10 (0.82–1.48) 0.5 1.78 (1.48–2.15) <0.001
 Skilled nursing 0.88 (0.56–1.37) 0.6 1.57 (1.18–2.09) 0.002
 Long-term acute care 2.53 (0.67–9.60) 0.2 6.38 (1.42–28.6) 0.016
 Other 2.18 (0.96–4.95) 0.063 1.27 (0.67–2.41) 0.5
*

The trend in practice over time (ie, slope) before intervention; time after, the difference in slope between the preimplementation and postimplementation slopes.

LACE indicates LACE Index Scoring Tool for Risk Assessment of Death and Readmission; OR, odds ratio.