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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Nurs Stud. 2016 Jun 16;61:117–124. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2016.06.005

Table 3.

Relationships between RNs who report excellent quality of care and/or patient safety and the outcome of 30-day inpatient mortality.

Unadjusted model Adjusted modela
OR 95% CI Pr > ChiSq OR 95% CI Pr > ChiSq
Quality of care
Middle tertile hospitals compared to the lowest tertile hospitals 0.82 0.66–1.00 0.055 0.86 0.72–1.04 0.112
Highest tertile hospitals compared to the lowest tertile hospitals 0.79 0.61–1.02 0.067 0.77 0.65–0.91 0.002
Patient safety
Middle tertile hospitals compared to the lowest tertile hospitals 0.92 0.75–0.13 0.450 0.82 0.68–1.00 0.048
Highest tertile hospitals compared to the lowest tertile hospitals 0.68 0.52–0.90 0.006 0.74 0.60–0.91 0.004
a

Adjustments were made for patient characteristics (gender, age, comorbidities, surgical DRGs, emergency room admittance) and hospital characteristics (size, level of specialization, teaching status)