Table 3.

Likelihood of Receiving a Prescription for a Prosthetic Limb Regressed on Sociodemographic Contexts, Amputation Level, Contributing Etiologies, Elixhauser Comorbidities, Medical Acuity, and Initial Functional Status

Variable	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval
Age (reference:≥ 86)
<76	4.51	1.36–14.99*
76–85	2.43	0.72–8.24
Amputation (reference: transfemoral) level transtibial	2.43	1.88–3.15‡
Etiology
Problems with peripheral circulation	0.64	0.47–0.88†
Systemic sepsis	0.67	0.44–1.01
Elixhauser comorbidities
Chronic blood loss anemias	0.38	0.13–1.13
Congestive heart failure	0.73	0.55–0.97*
Drug abuse	2.04	1.06–3.94*
Metastatic cancer	0.27	0.06–1.23
Other neurological disorders	0.42	0.17–1.04
Paralysis	0.18	0.06–0.50†
Medical acuity: Severe renal disease	0.67	0.43–1.05
Initial motor Functional Independence
Measure (reference 13–32)
33–52	2.01	1.51–2.67‡
53–72	2.71	2.02–3.65‡
73–91	2.10	1.34–3.31†

Note: Variables included in the final parsimonious model were significant in the domain-specific stepwise regression models.

C-statistic = 0.73; Hosmer-Lemeshow P-value = .35.

P < ^* .05; ^† .01; ^‡ .001.