Table 5.

Clinical Audit score and inappropriateness of hospital stay (days) *

	β coefficient	95% CI		p
Clinical Audit score	−0.11	−0.21	−0.01	0.02
% admissions in urgency	0.02	−0.09	0.13	0.70
ward (surgical/medical)	0.80	−4.94	6.54	0.78
% appropriateness in admissions	−0.67	−0.79	−0.55	<0.01
constant	72.57	64.69	80.45	<0.01

*The multiple regression included 45 wards over 47 because of the lack of information about the percentage of urgent admissions of two Units.