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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2010 Apr;39(4):663–672. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2009.07.014

Table 4.

The Effects of the Covariates in the Zero-Inflated Model Predicting Number of Hospitalizations at 16 Weeks and Number of Days in the Hospital

Outcome: Number of Hospitalizations at 16 Weeks
Covariate Estimated
Coefficient
Standard Error t P-value
Number of hospitalization before
baseline
0.38 0.16 2.40 0.0165
Overall severity reduced (≥50%) −0.87 0.31 −2.79 0.0053
Overall severity reduced (0–49%) −0.66 0.38 −1.75 0.0802
Baseline symptom severity 0.02 0.01 2.10 0.0357
Trail Arm (ATSM vs. NASM) −0.25 0.30 −0.82 0.4112
Outcome: Number of Nights in the Hospital
Covariate Estimated
Coefficient
Standard Error t P-value
Number of Nights Stayed in Hospital
Before Wave 1
0.03 0.01 2.46 0.0139
Overall severity reduced (≥50%) −0.53 0.11 −4.74 <0.0001
Overall severity reduced (0–49%) −0.60 0.13 −4.67 <0.0001
Baseline symptom severity 0.01 0.002 5.12 <0.0001
Trail Arm (ATSM vs. NASM) 0.02 0.09 0.25 0.8024