Table 3.
The association between preoperative time (in days) and demographic and clinical characteristics
| Regression coefficients | ||
|---|---|---|
| Unadjusted coefficients (95% CI) |
Adjusted coefficients * (95% CI) |
|
| Hispanics vs non-Hispanic whites | 0.44 (0.35, 0.62) | 0.55 (0.36, 0.74) |
| Blacks vs non-Hispanic whites | 0.35 (0.27, 0.43) | 0.32 (0.22, 0.43) |
| Age (in decade) | -- | -0.01 (-0.03, 0.02) |
| Men vs Women | -- | 0.10 (0.06, 0.14) |
| Klabunde index | ||
| 1 vs 0 | -- | 0.17 (0.13, 0.21) |
| 2 vs 0 | 0.29 (0.24, 0.34) | |
| >3 vs 0 | 0.43 (0.37, 0.48) | |
| Diagnoses (ref group: unspecified part of the femoral neck) | ||
| Transcervical fracture | -- | -0.01 (-0.04, 0.04) |
| Pertrochanteric fracture | -0.11 (-0.14, -0.07) | |
| Income (ref= lowest quartiles) | ||
| Second | -0.05 (-0.10, 0.01) | |
| Third | -- | -0.03 (-0.07, 0.02) |
| Highest | 0.05 (-0.01, 0.10) | |
*
Patients admitted in 2001 were excluded from the multivariate analysis because they did not have information on comorbidity.