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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Intern Med. 2007 Sep 24;167(17):1869–1874. doi: 10.1001/archinte.167.17.1869

Table 4. Clinical Outcomes Among Patients Assigned to Teaching Hospitalist and Non-Hospitalist Services.

TH NH
30-Day Readmission* 0.97
(0.88 - 1.08)		 reference
In-Hosp Mortality† 1.03
(0.83 - 1.28)		 reference
30-Day Mortality‡ 1.05
(0.88 - 1.26)		 reference

TH= Teaching Hospitalist; NH= Non-Hospitalist

Odds Ratios (95% confidence intervals) for events if assigned to a hospitalist team using non-hospitalist teams as reference

95% confidence intervals reported cluster robust for clusters of patients by physician

*

Adjusted for age, sex, insurance, diabetes, albumin, DRG-weight, number of admissions in prior 90 days

†

Adjusted for age, sex, race-ethnicity, insurance, diabetes, albumin, DRG-weight

‡

Adjusted for age, sex, insurance, albumin, DRG-Weight, number of admissions in prior 90-days

30-day mortality taken from social security death registry using social security number matching.