Table 2.

Crude and Adjusted Odds of Transfer for Black and Hispanic Patients Compared with White Patients

	Crude	Patient-level adjustment, excluding mediators†,‡	Patient-/hospital-level adjustment, excluding mediators‡,§	Patient-/hospital-level adjustment, all variables
Race/ethnicity*	OR (95% CI)	aOR (95% CI)	aOR (95% CI)	aOR (95% CI)
Black	0.83 (0.78–0.89)‖	0.82 (0.77–0.88) ‖	1.01 (0.96–1.07)	1.05 (0.99–1.13)
Hispanic	0.81 (0.75–0.87)‖	0.80 (0.74–0.87) ‖	0.95 (0.89–1.02)	1.00 (0.93–1.08)

*Reference category = White

†Patient-level characteristics include age, sex, primary insurance, zip code median income, APR-DRG mortality risk, and Elixhauser comorbidity index

‡Potential mediator variables include insurance and zip code median income

^§Hospital-level characteristics include location/teaching status, ownership, bedsize, and region

^‖p < 0.001

aOR, adjusted odds ratio; APR-DRG, All Patients Refined Diagnosis Related Groups; CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio