Table 3.

Multivariate analysis of the likelihood of 30-day readmission

Covariate	30-day unplanned readmission		P value
	OR	95% CI
Parent perception of their child's hospital discharge
‘I felt that my child was healthy enough to leave the hospital’.	0.2a	0.1, 0.6	0.002
‘I felt comfortable contacting my child's primary care physician for help if my child's health worsened after leaving the hospital’.	0.8a	0.3, 2.2	0.6
‘I understood how to manage my child's health over the weeks after going home’.	0.7a	0.1, 4.1	0.7
Child demographic characteristics
Male gender	2.5	1.0, 6.5	0.06
Age at admission (in years)	1.0b	1.0, 1.1	0.71
Private vs. public insurance	1.4	0.4, 4.7	0.56
Hispanic	4.1c	0.7, 22.5	0.1
Non-Hispanic Black	2.7c	0.6, 11.2	0.4
Other race/ethnicity	0.5c	0.1, 2.7	0.6
Child clinical characteristics
Use of home nursing	2.6	0.9, 7.4	0.07
Use of durable medical equipment	1.5	0.5, 4.2	0.47
Complex chronic condition	1.4	0.5, 3.9	0.54
Child hospitalization characteristics
Length of stay of index hospitalization (in days)	1.2	1.0, 1.3	0.008
Discharge to home	0.6	0.1, 3.4	0.54

^aShown are the odds of admission for children whose parents strongly agreed with the perception.

^bShown are the odds of admission for a 1-year increase in age at admission.

^cNon-Hispanic white is the reference group.