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Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2013 Feb 6;21(9):10.1016/j.jagp.2013.01.017. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2013.01.017

Table 3.

Sensitivity analyses of severe sepsis and subsequent depression with imputation of depression prevalence of new post-sepsis proxy-requiring respondents^a

	17% depression prevalence among new post-sepsis proxy-requiring respondents⁴⁵	45% depression prevalence among new post-sepsis proxy-requiring respondents⁴⁶	95% depression prevalence among new post-sepsis proxy-requiring respondents⁴⁷
Median RR for Effect of Sepsis	0.90	1.03	1.16
95% Range for Point Estimates of Effect of Severe Sepsis (2.5^th percentile – 97.5^th percentile for point estimate of RRs for effect of sepsis)	0.82–0.99	0.93–1.13	1.13–1.20
% of all simulations with statistically significant positive association between severe sepsis and depression	0	0	0

Abbreviations (in alphabetical order): % = percent; RR = relative risk.

The results presented are from three sets of simulations of the fixed-effects regression analyses in which we imputed the presence of substantial depressive symptoms based on random assignment to patients who had converted from self-respondents pre-sepsis to requiring a proxy post-sepsis. These simulations were replicated 100 times.