Table 6.

Regression models^* for factors predicting discharge summary adherence to the total NPC minimum dataset, patient, admission and discharge information, mediation information and therapy change information

	Adherence to total NPC minimum dataset					Adherence to patient, admission & discharge information					Adherence to medication information					Adherence to therapy change information
	B	SE	P	95% CI for B		B	SE	P	95% CI for B		B	SE	P	95% CI for B		B	SE	P	95% CI for B
				Lower limit	Upper limit				Lower limit	Upper limit				Lower limit	Upper limit				Lower limit	Upper limit
Constant	78.6	0.75	<0.001	77.1	80.1	79.1	0.32	<0.001	78.4	79.7	66.7	0.82	<0.001	65.1	68.3	52.1	1.2	<0.001	49.7	54.5
Number of medications	−0.24	0.04	<0.001	−0.3	−0.2	0.11	0.04	.007	0.03	0.2	−0.02	0.10	0.86	−0.2	0.18	−0.23	0.16	0.15	−0.6	0.1
Type of discharge summary
Handwritten	−3.51	0.63	<0.001	−4.8	−2.3	−4.8	0.86	<0.001	−6.5	3.1	−13.5	3.62	<0.001	−20.6	−6.4	−5.6	4.2	0.19	−13.9	2.8
Electronic	0					0					0					0
Discharge summary template
Template 1	−5.83	0.68	<0.001	−7.2	−4.5	−8.5	1.00	<0.001	−10.5	−6.5	−6.1	2.3	0.01	−10.6	−1.7	−5.6	4.2	0.19	−13.9	2.8
Template 2	1.66	1.50	0.27	−1.3	4.6	3.9	1.90	0.04	0.1	7.7	7.1	4.4	0.11	−1.5	15.8	−3.3	7.5	0.66	−17.9	11.3
Template 3	8.14	0.97	<0.001	6.2	10.1	6.3	0.96	<0.001	4.5	8.2	18.2	2.1	<0.001	14.2	22.3	17.9	3.6	0.01	10.8	24.9
Template 4	−0.13	1.53	0.93	−3.1	2.9	−0.58	2.1	0.78	−4.7	3.5	−6.2	4.6	0.18	−15.2	2.8	−12.1	6.8	0.08	−25.5	1.3
Template 5	0					0					0
Community hospital template	−9.47	1.56	<0.001	−12.5	−6.4	−9.5	1.9	<0.001	−13.2	−5.7	−4.9	4.3	0.25	−13.5	3.5	−19.2	8.1	0.02	−35.1	−3.3

^*Final stepwise elimination models.