Table 5.

Factors Associated with Death in APCU or Home Discharge in Two Thousand Five Hundred Sixty-Eight Patients by Multivariate Logistic Regression

	Death in APCU		Home discharge
	Odds ratio (95% CI)	p value	Odds ratio (95% CI)	p value
Age (per year)	—	—	0.98 (0.97–0.99)	<0.001
Male	1.26 (1.04–1.52)	0.018	—	—
Cancer		<0.001
Breast	0.83 (0.58–1.19)	0.31	NS	NS
Neurologic	0.37 (0.12–1.12)	0.078
Dermatologic	1.0 (0.64–1.56)	1.0
Endocrine	1.77 (0.74–4.21)	0.20
Gastrointestinal	0.91 (0.70–1.17)	0.45
Genitourinary	0.75 (0.55–1.03)	0.077
Gynecologic	0.49 (0.33–0.72)	<0.001
Head and neck	0.61 (0.40–0.91)	0.016
Hematologic	1.96 (1.39–2.49)	<0.001
Sarcoma	0.75 (0.47–1.18)	0.22
Unknown primary	1.02 (0.64–1.63)	0.92
Respiratory	1.0	Ref
Direct APCU admission	0.38 (0.31–0.47)	<0.001	3.78 (3.01–4.74)	<0.001

APCU, acute palliative care unit; CI, confidence interval; NS, not significant;—denotes variables not included in regression model.