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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011 Nov 7;59(12):2256–2262. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03729.x

Table 4.

Logistic regression to determine the additional predictive value of postoperative pain and opioid use with respect to incident delirium on the second postoperative day.

Variables in
addition to ICU
Admission and
Dementia
Overall
χ2
Overall
Area
under
ROC.
curve**
P (Overall) Dementia* P
Dementia
ICU
Admission*
P ICU
Admission
Additional
variable*
P
(Additional
Variable)
None 37.9 0.74 <0.001 5.86 (3.04,11.31) <0.001 2.71 (1.33,5.53) 0.006 NA NA
Pain-POD1 25.2 0.73 <0.001 4.34 (2.03, 9.28) <0.001 2.78 (1.26, 6.11) 0.011 0.90 (0.77, 1.06) 0.203
Pain-POD2 25.0 0.75 <0.001 4.25 (1.98, 9.12) <0.001 2.19 (0.98, 4.93) 0.056 0.89 (0.74, 1.07) 0.220
Opioid-POD1 38.0 0.74 <0.001 6.00 (3.07, 11.74) <0.001 2.76 (1.34, 5.68) 0.006 1.27 (0.35, 4.68) 0.711
Opioid-POD2 37.8 0.75 <0.001 5.70 (2.92, 11.15) <0.001 2.58 (1.26, 5.27) 0.009 0.63 (0.11, 3.49) 0.591
*

Odds ratio (95% confidence interval)

**

Area under receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (range 0.5–1.0, equivalent to the C-statistic) for predictions of logistic model.

NA = not applicable; POD = postoperative day.