Table 3.
Results Model 21
| Mean (SD) | Corr. | Regression coefficient (standard error) | ||||
| Univariable | Multilevel | Multilevel All2 | Pooled OLS All2 | |||
| Level 1 | ||||||
| Year | - | -0.45* | -8.4 (0.5)* | -8.2 (0.5)* | -8.3 (0.5)* | -8.3 (0.6)* |
| Discharge procedure | - | 0.04 | 0.7 (2.3) | - | 1.0 (1.9) | -0.7 (2.5) |
| Level 2 | ||||||
| GPs per 10,000 inhabitants | 5.3 (0.3) | -0.17* | -8.1 (3.9)* | -10.6 (3.8)* | -10.5 (3.9)* | -10.2 (3.9)* |
| SES | 0.3 (0.4) | -0.04 | -1.7 (3.5) | - | -2.1 (3.4) | -1.9 (3.2) |
| Nursing home beds per 10,000 inhabitants | 39.0 (7.1) | -0.02 | -0.0 (0.2) | - | -0.0 (0.2) | 0.0 (0.2) |
| Hospital type | - | 0.26* | 15.1 (4.7)* | 14.7 (5.9)* | 14.5 (6.1)* | 15.5 (7.6)* |
| Teaching status | - | -0.02 | -1.1 (2.7) | - | -4.8 (3.1) | -5.3 (3.0) |
| Hospital size | 483 (245) | 0.18* | 0.01 (0.0)* | -0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) |
| Volume | 36.8 (5.3) | -0.21* | -0.6 (0.2)* | -0.2 (0.3) | -0.1 (0.3) | -0.1 (0.2) |
| Bed occupancy rate (%) | 65.0 (8.8) | 0.04 | 0.1 (0.2) | - | - | - |
| Beddays for daycases/total beddays (%) | 12.6 (2.8) | -0.25* | -1.4 (0.5)* | -0.6 (0.5) | -0.6 (0.5) | -0.7 (0.5) |
| Nurses per bed | 1.1 (0.2) | 0.10 | 7.1 (6.3) | - | - | - |
| Doctors per bed | 0.3 (0.1) | 0.05 | 6.8 (12.3) | - | - | - |
| N | - | - | - | 271 | 267 | 267 |
| ICC | - | - | - | 0.66 | 0.66 | - |
| -2*loglikelihood (IGLS) | - | - | - | 2021 | 1990 | - |
1 Y = HSMR (2003 = 100), Corr. = Bivariate Pearson correlation coefficient.
2 Due to perceived multicollinearity occupancy rate, doctors/bed and nurses/bed were excluded.
* Statistically significant (95% interval)