Table 2.

Patient and injury characteristics associated with time (minutes/week) in nursing activities*^,†

	Bladder education		Interdisciplinary conferencing
	Total R2 = 0.21		Total R2 = 0.21
Independent variable	Parameter estimate	Type II semi-partial R2	Parameter estimate	Type II semi-partial R2
Race – white	4.86	0.01	−2.69	0.01
Severity of illness score (CSI)	−0.26	0.09	0.15	0.07
Admission FIM cognitive score			0.61	0.04
Injury group: C5–C8 ABC	7.20	0.01
Injury group: AIS D			7.29	0.02
Injury group: Para ABC	11.42	0.03
Clinician experience			1.73	0.09
Employment status at the time of injury – student	−6.31	0.01
Employment status at the time of injury – other	34.22	0.06

*Activities included only if more than 70% of patients participated and the total R² > 0.20.

^†Independent variables allowed into models: age at injury, male, married, race – white, race – black, race – Hispanic, race – other, admission FIM motor score, admission FIM cognitive score, severity of illness score (CSI), injury group: C1–C4 ABC, injury group: C5–C8 ABC, injury group: Para ABC, injury group: AIS D, clinician experience, traumatic etiology – vehicular, traumatic etiology – violence, traumatic etiology – falls, traumatic etiology – sports, traumatic etiology – medical/surgical complication, traumatic etiology – other, work-related injury, number of days from trauma to rehabilitation admission, BMI >40, BMI 30–40, BMI <30, language – English, language – no English, language – English sufficient for understanding, payer – Medicare, payer – worker compensation, payer – private, payer – Medicaid, employment status at the time of injury – employed, employment status at the time of injury – student, employment status at the time of injury – retired, employment status at the time of injury – unemployed, employment status at the time of injury – other, and ventilator use rehabilitation admission.