Table 3.
HLM Results for Resident Resource Use Score, and Licensed and Professional and Unlicensed Minute/Day
| Resource Use Score—RST | Licensed and Professional RST | Unlicensed RST | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coefficient | p | Coefficient | p | Coefficient | p | |
| Intercept | 149.50 | .000 | 32.69 | .000 | 79.47 | .000 |
| Unit variables | ||||||
| Alzheimer's unit | 21.12 | .022 | 5.50 | .073 | 9.51 | .057 |
| Proportion SE, R, or SS residents | 60.12 | .002 | 29.91 | .000 | −9.58 | .351 |
| Unit size | 0.04 | .879 | 0.02 | .764 | 0.03 | .822 |
| NRST licensed and professional minutes | 0.28 | .305 | 0.41 | .000 | −0.53 | .001 |
| NRST unlicensed minutes | 0.70 | .000 | −0.06 | .253 | 0.81 | .000 |
| Resident-level covariates | ||||||
| Indiana | 2.88 | .716 | 5.53 | .037 | −12.65 | .004 |
| Mississippi | 14.83 | .146 | 0.96 | .777 | 7.29 | .188 |
| Colorado | −13.63 | .254 | −2.96 | .459 | −2.39 | .713 |
| Receiving restorative nursing | 6.79 | .008 | −1.25 | .204 | 8.48 | .000 |
| Length of stay < 45 days | 27.47 | .000 | 11.28 | .000 | 0.53 | .782 |
| Day gap between STM and MDS | −0.44 | .000 | −0.10 | .001 | −0.119 | .004 |
| RUG-III groups | ||||||
| SE group with IV medications only | −41.06 | .000 | −28.11 | .000 | 4.90 | .352 |
| SE3 | 97.10 | .000 | 50.34 | .000 | 9.81 | .074 |
| SE2 | 96.95 | .000 | 53.89 | .000 | 0.09 | .851 |
| SE1 | 48.22 | .000 | 28.22 | .000 | −0.66 | .918 |
| RAD | 91.82 | .000 | 31.20 | .000 | 33.87 | .000 |
| RAC | 53.66 | .000 | 16.42 | .000 | 20.29 | .000 |
| RAB | 25.59 | .000 | 13.35 | .000 | −4.48 | .149 |
| RAA | −10.97 | .060 | 5.98 | .009 | −29.01 | .000 |
| SSC | 74.36 | .000 | 22.43 | .000 | 36.24 | .000 |
| SSB | 47.06 | .000 | 15.70 | .000 | 18.37 | .000 |
| SSA | 9.72 | .050 | 12.54 | .000 | −15.11 | .000 |
| CC2 | 61.81 | .000 | 14.95 | .000 | 38.71 | .000 |
| CC1 | 38.66 | .000 | 11.12 | .000 | 23.71 | .000 |
| CB2 | 19.98 | .001 | 6.28 | .005 | 9.26 | .005 |
| CB1 | 14.75 | .000 | 5.70 | .000 | 4.97 | .024 |
| CA2 | −9.35 | .162 | 9.77 | .000 | −28.17 | .000 |
| CA1 | −24.89 | .000 | 5.69 | .000 | −36.36 | .000 |
| IB1&2 | −30.42 | .000 | −4.34 | .000 | −23.32 | .000 |
| IA1&2 | −59.54 | .000 | −5.17 | .000 | −51.44 | .000 |
| BB1&2 | −31.60 | .010 | 2.99 | .526 | −36.25 | .000 |
| BA1&2 | −69.61 | .000 | −4.08 | .274 | −65.11 | .000 |
| PE1&2 | 29.12 | .000 | 0.96 | .379 | 29.51 | .000 |
| PD1&2 (reference category) | ||||||
| PC1&2 | −22.03 | .001 | −1.41 | .578 | −20.84 | .000 |
| PB1&2 | −47.22 | .000 | −4.31 | .044 | −39.29 | .000 |
| PA1&2 | −65.02 | .000 | −5.64 | .000 | −57.16 | .004 |
| Unconditional model variance | ||||||
| Level 1 variance | 4,622 | 572 | 1,794 | |||
| Level 2 variance | 2,099 | 342 | 716 | |||
| Intraclass correlation | 0.312 | 0.374 | 0.285 | |||
| Residual variance for models | ||||||
| Level 1 RUG only model | 3,185 | 481 | 1,040 | |||
| Level 2 RUG only model | 1,967 | 251 | 894 | |||
| Level 1 full model | 3,073 | 466 | 1,021 | |||
| Level 2 full model | 1,412 | 153 | 413 | |||
| % change in residual variance | ||||||
| Level 1 unconditional—RUG only (%) | 23 | 20 | 23 | |||
| Level 2 unconditional—RUG only (%) | 31 | 16 | 41 | |||
| Level 1 unconditional—full (%) | 33 | 32 | 43 | |||
| Level 2 unconditional—full (%) | 33 | 19 | 43 | |||
| Deviance statistics | ||||||
| Unconditional model | 60,338 | 49,280 | 55,293 | |||
| RUG only model | 58,262 | 48,239 | 52,391 | |||
| Significance: RUG—unconditional (df = 33) | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||
| Full model | 57,970 | 47,974 | 52,138 | |||
| Significance: full—RUG (df = 11) | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||
STM, staff time measurement; MDS, minimum data set; RUG-III, resource utilization groups III; NRST, nonresident-specific time; RST, resident-specific time; HLM, hierarchical linear modeling.