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. 2019 Sep 4;7:248. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00248

Table 5.

Duke-PH scores as predictors of number of initial health problems (morbidity) and number of 6-months follow-up encounters (utilization), while controlling for other variables.

Initial health problems Follow-up encounters
Coefficient (SE) Coefficient (SE) Coefficient (SE) Coefficient (SE) Coefficient (SE) Coefficient (SE)
Social determinants subscale score −0.031* (0.015) - - −0.057* (0.028) - -
Health determinants subscale score - −0.066*** (0.015) - - −0.174*** (0.028) -
Population health scale score - - −0.066*** (0.017) - - −0.156*** (0.033)
Age 0.095*** (0.025) 0.096*** (0.025) 0.094*** (0.025) 0.014 (0.048) 0.013 (0.046) 0.008 (0.047)
Female 1.135* (0.566) 0.969 (0.554) 1.099* (0.558) 1.367 (1.095) 0.997 (1.049) 1.327 (1.068)
Has health insurance 2.013** (0.630) 2.035** (0.617) 2.072* (0.622) 3.869** (1.219) 3.994** (1.168) 4.054** (1.192)
Body mass index (BMI) 0.118** (0.036) 0.101** (0.035) 0.108** (0.035) 0.111 (0.069) 0.066 (0.067) 0.088 (0.068)
Hypertensive 1.644** (0.674) 1.862** (0.664) 1.77** (0.667) −0.556 (1.305) 0.045 (1.256) −0.231 (1.278)
Diabetic 2.047** (0.608) 1.935** (0.597) 1.952** (0.601) 1.850 (1.176) 1.501 (1.130) 1.589 (1.151)
Alcohol drinker 1.096 (0.710) 0.920 (0.698) 0.975 (0.702) 3.210* (1.373) 2.701* (1.320) 2.894* (1.345)
Intercept −0.718 (2.240) 1.969 (2.218) 1.933 (2.319) 8.132 (4.334) 17.028*** (4.196) 15.634** (4.443)
R2 0.31 0.34 0.33 0.12 0.19 0.16
F statistic 15.5*** 17.4*** 16.8*** 4.6*** 7.9*** 6.4***

n = 424.

†Multiple linear regressions. Not shown in table are four additional independent variables (marital status, race/ethnicity, household size, and cigarette smoker), none of which were statistically significant predictors in any of the models.

‡SE, Standard error.

*p <0.05,

**p <0.01,

***p <0.001.