Table 3.

Estimates of the random-effects model predicting in-hospital death(n = 48,942)

Independent variables	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval
Individual race (ref = White)	0.95	0.87	1.03
Percentage of Black residents in facility (per 10% increase)	1.22*	1.17	1.26
Covariates
Year of death (ref= 2005)
2006	1.00	0.94	1.05
2007	1.03	0.97	1.09
Age (ref = younger than 80)
80–90	0.90*	0.85	0.96
older than 90	0.77*	0.72	0.82
Female	0.99	0.94	1.04
ADL (range 0–28)	0.98*	0.97	0.98
CPS	0.90*	0.89	0.92
Diabetes	1.12*	1.07	1.18
Number of heart/circulation diseases	1.03*	1.01	1.06
Number of neurological diseases	1.03	0.98	1.07
Asthma and/or COPD	1.06	1.00	1.12
Cancer	0.89*	0.83	0.96
Septicemia	0.96	0.80	1.16
Fracture in the last 180 days	0.97	0.87	1.09
Surgical wounds	1.08	0.95	1.23
Infection of the foot	1.20	0.98	1.46
Ulcers	0.92*	0.87	0.97
Tuberculosis	0.65	0.22	1.91
Renal failure	1.02	0.94	1.12
Syncope	1.19	0.84	1.69
Pneumonia	0.96	0.88	1.06
Endstage diagnosis	0.87*	0.77	0.98
Feeding tube	1.47*	1.36	1.58
Hospice	0.11*	0.10	0.12
Do-Not-Resuscitate	0.62*	0.59	0.65
Do-Not-Hospitalize	0.34*	0.29	0.39

^*p<0.05

C-statistics = 0.741