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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatrics. 2009 Jan;123(1):286–293. doi: 10.1542/peds.2007-3395

Table 3.

Parameter estimates for final readmission model

OR 95% CI Standardized Beta
Sex Male 0.956 0.929 0.985 -0.0064
Female
Age (in years) 2-4 0.901 0.859 0.945 -0.0123
5-9 0.897 0.857 0.939 -0.0141
10-14 0.976 0.934 1.020 -0.0039
15-17
Race/Ethnicity Black 1.231 1.186 1.278 0.0264
Hispanic 0.998 0.954 1.043 0.0000
Asian 0.948 0.851 1.057 -0.0022
Other 0.940 0.884 1.000 -0.0040
White
Payer Government 1.204 1.163 1.246 0.0261
Other 1.077 1.037 1.119 0.0082
Private
CCC Diagnoses Malignancy 1.986 1.833 2.153 0.0594
Neurologic 1.602 1.524 1.684 0.0584
Renal 1.563 1.386 1.764 0.0202
Respiratory 1.475 1.272 1.709 0.0153
Gastrointestinal 1.432 1.269 1.616 0.0204
Congenital/Genetic 1.422 1.322 1.530 0.0232
Metabolic 1.376 1.226 1.544 0.0153
Cardiovascular 1.158 1.063 1.260 0.0116
Hemat./Immun. 0.873 0.764 0.996 -0.0069
No CCC
LOS (in days) 0-2 0.621 0.573 0.674 -0.0926
3-7 0.749 0.692 0.810 -0.0634
8-14 0.938 0.863 1.019 -0.0093
>14
Season Spring 0.960 0.921 1.000 -0.0039
Summer 1.110 1.064 1.157 0.0138
Fall 1.393 1.339 1.450 0.0440
Winter
Disposition Home Health Services 1.179 1.055 1.317 0.0075
Other 0.910 0.778 1.063 -0.0034
Skilled Facility 0.796 0.676 0.937 -0.0069
Home
Past Admissions Number 1.221 1.201 1.242 0.1059
Time Since Past
Admission (in
months
0-2 2.893 2.727 3.069 0.1338
3-4 2.971 2.766 3.191 0.0891
5-6 2.739 2.534 2.960 0.0699
7-8 2.335 2.150 2.535 0.0505
9-10 2.108 1.935 2.296 0.0409
11-12 1.840 1.689 2.005 0.0308
No past admissions
Past CCC
Diagnoses
Hemat/Immun 1.403 1.174 1.675 0.0130
Malignancy 0.722 0.651 0.801 -0.0104
Past Dispositions Skilled Facility 0.744 0.601 0.921 -0.0062