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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 19.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2008 Jun 2;117(23):2995–3001. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.758532

Table 5.

Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis of Risk Factors for Moderate or Worse Preventable and Possibly Preventable Diagnostic Errors

AOR 95% CI P
Frequency diagnosis observed in laboratory
  Frequent 1.0
  Less frequent 2.1 0.8–5.1 0.11
  Rare/very rare 9.2 3.8–22.1 <0.001
Study location
  Echocardiography laboratory 1.0
  CICU 2.2 0.7–6.7 0.18
  NICU 2.4 0.6–10.2 0.24
  PICU 1.3 0.2–7.3 0.79
  Recovery suite 7.9 1.4–43 0.017
Anatomic complexity
  Low 1.0
  Moderate 3.5 1.5–8.1 0.004
  High 2.5 0.9–6.9 0.086
Weight at echocardiography, kg
  >20 1.0
  5–20 3.5 1.5–8.6 0.005
  <5 3.5 1.1–10.6 0.031

Abbreviations as in Table 4.