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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 7.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2009 Sep;17(9):734–743. doi: 10.1097/jgp.0b013e3181a65187

Table 4.

Predictors for mortality at up to 8.5 years.

Wald df Sig. HR 95.0% CI for HR
Lower Upper
Treatment group .005 1 .946 .984 .612 1.581
Patient age 1.102 1 .294 1.019 .984 1.056
Patient gender .072 1 .789 .932 .558 1.558
ADCS-ADL at baseline 5.005 1 .025 .971 .947 .996
ADAS-Cog at baseline 10.040 1 .002 1.041 1.016 1.068
NH placement 8.253 1 .004 .449 .260 .775
UK vs Australia* .045 1 .833 .936 .508 1.727
USA vs Australia* 3.028 1 .082 .574 .307 1.073
UK vs USA*1 1.963 1 .161 1.630 0.823 3.230
Patient physical health at baseline .691 1 .406 .931 .787 1.102
Caregiver depression at baseline 3.866 1 .049 .959 .920 1.000

Significant HR are printed bold,

*

indicates reference group

1

in order to get pair wise comparisons for all three countries, Cox regression was run twice changing the reference group