Table 4. Generalized linear model estimates of nursing variable costs.

Variable	Composite Measure of Quality		Summed Events Measure of Quality
	Coefficient	Standard Error	Coefficient	Standard Error
Log of Number of Admissions	1.008***	0.053	1.057***	0.050
Log of Average Length of Stay	0.393***	0.051	0.449***	0.067
Case-Mix Index	-0.022*	0.013	-0.024*	0.013
Quality Monitors: Composite	-0.725	0.779	---	---
Quality Monitors: Summed Events (100)	---	---	-0.075 E-3	0.047 E-3
Intercept	8.156***	0.687	7.623***	0.609
Number of Observations	264

* p < 0.10;

***p < 0.01