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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 26.
Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2011 Nov 19;21(3):405–415. doi: 10.1007/s11136-011-0065-7

Table 3.

Proportional hazard model for time until crossover from standard of care to pain and palliative care

Analysis of maximum likelihood estimates
Variable DF Parameter estimate Standard error Chi-square P value Hazard ratio
APACHE IIa 1   0.02509 0.12079 0.0431 0.8354 1.025
Depressionb 1   0.10933 0.05492 3.9626 0.0465 1.116
Pain intensityc 1 −0.19748 0.13152 2.2544 0.1332 0.821
Pain unpleasantnessc 1   0.31143 0.14082 4.8905 0.0270 1.365
Symptom distressc 1 −0.01831 0.04673 0.1535 0.6952 0.982
a

Within 24 h postop,

b

at baseline (preop),

c

Time-varying covariate