Table 2.

Patient and Nurse Discharge Readiness Assessments: Odds Ratios for 30 Days Readmission and Emergency Department Visits, N = 254

	Dependent Variable = ED or Readmission within 30 Days
	Unadjusted Models						Adjusted Models§
	PT-RHDS/SF		RN-RHDS/SF		PT-RHDS/SF & RN-RHDS/SF		PT-RHDS/SF		RN-RHDS/SF		PT-RHDS/SF & RN-RHDS/SF
Variables	ED	R	ED	R	ED	R	ED	R	ED	R	ED	R
Readiness assessment
Patient (PT-RHDS/SF )	0.809 (0.364)	0.832 (0.336)			0.765 (0.259)	0.934 (0.727)	0.938 (0.797)	0.757 (0.120)			0.995 (0.986)	0.887 (0.532)
Nurse (RN-RHDS/SF)			1.184 (0.581)	0.611 (0.0514)*	1.308 (0.366)	0.626 (0.066)*			1.019 (0.948)	0.531 (0.019)**	1.061 (0.864)	0.556 (0.039)**
Patient controls‡
Length of stay							1.221 (0.072)*	0.918 (0.411)	1.233 (0.089)*	0.863 (0.237)	1.224 (0.067)*	0.867 (0.169)
Married†							3.463 (0.086)*	0.555 (0.369)	3.638 (0.080)*	0.545 (0.317)	3.519 (0.084)*	0.527 (0.312)
4+ Discharge meds¶							4.846 (0.019)**	1.153 (0.786)	5.049 (0.020)**	1.434 (0.497)	4.946 (0.020)**	1.393 (0.526)

p -values in parentheses, ^***p < .01,

^**p < .05,

^*p < .1. Bold values denote key findings discussed.

^§Adjusted for: age (years), sex (Male/Female), race (White/Black/Other), marital status (Single/Married/Widowed,divorced,separated,other), discharge coordination services (Yes/No), 4+ discharge meds (Yes/No), type of admission (Medical/Surgical), severity of illness score (1/2/3/4), mortality risk score (1/2/3/4), and unit and diagnosis fixed effects.

^‡Unit and diagnosis fixed effects and controls with p > .1 not shown.

^†Reference category = Single.

^¶4+ Discharge medications: four or more routine prescription medications ordered at discharge; reference category is fewer than four discharge meds or missing.

ED, emergency department visit(s) without readmission; R, readmitted.