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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 4.
Published in final edited form as: South Med J. 2016 Sep;109(9):583–587. doi: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000526

Table 4.

Logistic regression model distinguishing index from single admissions

OR (95% CI) P
Intercept 0.077 (0.033–0.163) 0.753
Length of stay 1.13 (1.07–1.20) <0.001
Service
 Hematology 0.991 (0.372–2.56) 0.9212
 Hospitalist 2.30 (1.10–5.04) 0.0284
 General medicine Ref —
 Other 0.990 (0.141–4.35) 0.9955

Outcome of interest is being an index admission; higher positive coefficients indicate greater odds of an admission being followed by a readmission. CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio.