Table 3.

Functional and 1 Year Mortality Outcomes by Group (N=1129)

	Alive Independe nt	Alive Dependent in IADL Independent in ADL	Alive Dependent in ADL	Dead	p-value*
0–3 Depression Symptoms at Discharge
Bivariate Analyses	Unadjusted Percents
Low-Low Group (n=643)	50%	22%	20%	8%
Low-High Group (n=76)	33	28	26	13	0.007
Multivariate Analyses, adjusting for Discharge characteristics†	Adjusted Predicted Probabilities
Low-Low Group (n=643)	0.49	0.27	0.19	0.06
Low-High Group (n=76)	0.37	0.28	0.26	0.09	0.02
4 –10 Depression Symptoms at Discharge
Bivariate Analyses	Unadjusted Percents
High-Low Group (n=258)	44%	24%	20%	12%
High-High Group (n=152)	16	20	38	25	<0.001
Multivariate Analyses, adjusting for Discharge characteristics†	Adjusted Predicted Probabilities
High-Low Group (n=258)	0.39	0.29	0.24	0.09
High-High Group (n=152)	0.19	0.24	0.36	0.21	<0.0001

^*P-value for association of low-low vs low-high and high-low vs high-high, respectively with ordinal outcome in a partial proportional odds model. P-value for association of all 4 groups with ordinal outcome in an adjusted partial proportional odds model is <0.001.

^†Discharge characteristics included in the partial proportional odds models were depression symptoms, ADL and IADL dependencies, intervention group, and one-year post-hospitalization mortality risk index. This index uses the following point scoring system: male sex-1 point, 1–4 ADL dependencies-2 points, 5 ADL dependencies-5 points; presence of congestive heart failure-2 points, cancer-3 points, metastatic cancer-8points; creatinine >3.0 mg/dl-2 points; albumin between 3.0–3.4 g/dl-1 point and <3.0 g/dl-2 points.