Table 4.

Estimates of the random-effects model predicting hospice(n = 48,942)

Independent variables	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval
Individual race (ref = White)	0.89	0.78	1.01
Percentage of Black residents in facility (per 10% increase)	0.85*	0.78	0.94
Covariates
Year of death (ref= 2005)
2006	1.08*	1.01	1.16
2007	1.22*	1.14	1.31
Age (ref = younger than 80)
80–90	0.97	0.89	1.05
older than 90	0.84*	0.77	0.92
Female	1.15*	1.07	1.23
ADL (range 0–28)	1.02*	1.01	1.02
CPS	1.03*	1.01	1.05
Diabetes	0.98	0.92	1.05
Number of heart/circulation diseases	0.98	0.95	1.00
Number of neurological diseases	1.00	0.94	1.05
Asthma and/or COPD	0.92*	0.85	0.99
Cancer	1.96*	1.81	2.13
Renal failure	0.98	0.88	1.09
Arthritis	0.93*	0.87	0.99
Depression	1.11*	1.05	1.18
Cataracts	0.95	0.87	1.03
HIV infection	1.44	0.37	5.12
Syncope	1.23	0.71	1.80
Ulcers	1.16*	1.08	1.25
Fracture in the last 180 days	1.00	0.87	1.15
Severe pain	1.48*	1.35	1.63
Dyspnea	1.12*	1.03	1.22
Endstage diagnosis	7.07*	6.42	7.79
Feeding tube	0.51*	0.45	0.57
Do-Not-Resuscitate	1.51*	1.40	1.63
Do-Not-Hospitalize	1.24*	1.11	1.38

^*p<0.05

C-statistics = 0.692