Table 5.

Patient Characteristics Associated with Hospital Readmission within 30 days

	B (S.E.)	P	Odds Ratio
Intercept	–1.37 (0.51)	0.01	0.25
Presence of an Interpreter
Both admission and discharge	–0.39 (0.15)	<0.01	0.67
Discharge, but not admission	–0.36 (0.17)	0.03	0.69
Admission, but not discharge	–0.53 (0.15)	<0.01	0.59
Neither admission nor discharge	Reference
Patient’s Preferred Language
Spanish	0.09 (0.17)	0.59	1.09
Portuguese	–0.08 (0.23)	0.73	0.92
Vietnamese	0.21 (0.24)	0.38	1.24
Albanian	0.30 (0.24)	0.22	1.35
Russian	0.10 (0.31)	0.75	1.11
Other	Reference
Gender
Male	0.25 (0.010)	0.01	1.28
Female	Reference
Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease
Not Cardiovascular disease	–0.04 (0.15)	0.81	0.96
Cardiovascular disease	Reference
Length of Hospital Stay (in days)	0.02 (0.01)	0.01	1.02
Age
Age in years	–0.01 (0.02)	0.62	0.99
Age in years squared	0.0001 (0.0001)	0.51	1.00
Illness Severity
Severity weight	0.03 (0.07)	0.69	1.03
Severity weight squared	–0.01 (0.01)	0.21	0.99

Homer & Lemenshow test: chi-square = 8.10, df = 8, P = 0.42