Table 3.
Effect of non-benzodiazepine hypnotic drugs on the risk of hip fracture as stratified by the following individual and facility level characteristics
| Number of exposed participants* |
Odds ratio | 95% confidence intervals |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual characteristics | ||||
| Cognitive status | ||||
| Intact or mild impairment | 558 | 1.86 | 1.56, 2.21 | 0.06 |
| Moderate to severe impairment | 366 | 1.43 | 1.15, 1.77 | |
| Functional status | ||||
| Mild impairment | 227 | 1.84 | 1.40, 2.42 | 0.65† |
| Moderate impairment | 604 | 1.71 | 1.44, 2.02 | |
| Total or severe dependence | 92 | 1.16 | 0.75, 1.79 | 0.11† |
| Transfers | ||||
| Independently | 167 | 1.46 | 1.06, 2.01 | 0.09‡ |
| Supervision or mild assistance | 417 | 2.02 | 1.65, 2.48 | |
| Extensive or full assistance | 339 | 1.43 | 1.14, 1.79 | 0.02‡ |
| Urinary incontinence | ||||
| Always continent or always incontinent | 587 | 1.70 | 1.43, 2.01 | 0.79 |
| Intermittently incontinent | 337 | 1.63 | 1.30, 2.04 | |
| Bed restraints | ||||
| No bed rails or side rails | 709 | 1.65 | 1.41, 1.93 | 0.78 |
| Bed or side rails used | 215 | 1.73 | 1.30, 2.31 | |
| Facility characteristics | ||||
| Hi resident to staff ratio | 463 | 1.87 | 1.52, 2.27 | 0.11 |
| Low resident to staff ratio | 457 | 1.50 | 1.23, 1.82 | |
| Hi Medicaid bed use | 453 | 1.46 | 1.20, 1.77 | 0.05 |
| Low Medicaid bed use | 468 | 1.90 | 1.57, 2.31 | |
30 day hazard period
Moderate functional impairment is the reference group
Mild assistance with transfers is the reference group