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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2018 Nov 13;67(2):352–356. doi: 10.1111/jgs.15662

Table 2:

Within-patient correlations between hospital-associated complications of older people. Cells report the Pearson correlation co-efficient (and associated p value) between each pair of complications.

Delirium Functional decline New incontinence Pressure injury Fall
Delirium 1 0.17
(p<0.001)		 0.07
(p=0.13)		 0.01
(p=0.86)		 0.12
(p=0.01)
Functional decline 0.17
(p<0.001)		 1 0.17
(p <0.001)		 0.14
(p=0.004)		 0.02
(p=0.63)
New incontinence 0.07
(p=0.13)		 0.17
(p<0.001)		 1 0.08
(p=0.10)		 0.02
(p=0.68)
Pressure injury 0.01
(p=0.86)		 0.14
(p=0.004)		 0.08
(p=0.10)		 1 0.02
(p=0.75)
Fall 0.12
(p=0.01)		 0.02
(p=0.63)		 0.02
(p=0.68)		 0.02
(p=0.75)		 1