Table 4.

Results of Linear Regression Predicting the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale

	Model 1 (n = 286)			Model 2 (n = 362)
	Estimate	Standard error	p	Estimate	Standard error	p
Intercept	94.1392	9.1816	<0.0001	88.3832	8.4478	<0.0001
Patient age	−0.3441	0.1022	0.0009	−0.2705	0.0924	0.0036
Patient female	−1.8708	2.0722	0.3673	−1.4944	1.9382	0.4412
Patient white	2.3926	2.0160	0.2362	1.5173	1.9041	0.4261
Cancer hospice diagnosis	0.1809	2.2304	0.9354	−0.5141	2.0934	0.8062
Length of stay	−0.0045	0.0052	0.3914	−0.0040	0.0051	0.4359
Death discharge reason	−2.3528	3.2494	0.4696	−0.7166	2.9984	0.8112
Received continuous home care during the last week on hospice	1.8016	3.2158	0.5757	2.8792	3.0503	0.3459
Caregiver age	−0.1487	0.1023	0.1472	−0.2533	0.0945	0.0077
Caregiver female	−0.5214	2.3257	0.8228	−1.3386	2.1491	0.5338
Caregiver spouse	−2.6375	3.3992	0.4384	0.5321	3.1292	0.8651
Caregiver education	−2.1009	1.3055	0.1086	−0.9644	1.2430	0.4384
No. of hours with patient per day	−0.1704	0.1147	0.1383	−0.1167	0.1050	0.2673
Comfort level managing patients' symptoms during last week on hospice care	1.9954	0.7014	0.0047	2.6210	0.6556	<0.0001

Model 1 has a reduced sample size because imputation was not used to replace missing covariate data. In Model 2, missing values in the covariates were replaced by the median of that variable.