TABLE 3—

Odds Ratios of Selecting a Nursing Home in Conditional Logit Regression Models: California, Ohio, New York, Texas, 2001

Variable	California	Ohio	New York	Texas
Hotel services quality	0.7990*	0.8885*	0.8343*	0.8805*
Clinical care quality measures
Decline in activities of daily living	1.1249	1.0807	1.0839	1.0863
Pressure sores	1.3804	1.0236	1.2908	1.0217
Physical restraints	1.0230	1.0115	0.9293*	0.9724
Ownership status
For-profit	0.6586**	0.8433**	0.9974	0.8424**
Public	0.5132**	1.3155**	0.5655**	0.5793
Nursing home characteristics
Size	1.2666**	1.2839**	1.5001**	1.1969**
Distance from prior residence in miles	0.0036**	0.0005**	0.0118**	0.0061**
Occupancy rate	1.1723**	1.4491**	1.0795*	0.8701**
Affiliation
Part of a chain	1.0462**	1.0448	0.9907	1.0657
Hospital affiliated	0.4243**	1.1643	0.9179	0.0837**
Pseudo R2	0.2299	0.3070	0.1868	0.3288

*P < .05; **P < .01 in a 1-tailed test.