Table 3.

Determinants of screening completion in older ED patients

	univariable	P-value	multivariable	P-value
	OR (95% CI)		OR (95% CI)
Patient-related determinants
Demographics
Age	1.02 (1.00–1.05)	0.032	1.03 (1.01–1.06)	0.017
Male	1.04 (0.80–1.35)	0.769	1.10 (0.82–1.47)	0.534
Severity of disease indicators
Arrival by ambulance	0.68 (0.52–0.90)	0.006	0.80 (0.57–1.13)	0.211
Triage urgency		<0.001*		0.003*
non-urgent (green and blue)	0.82 (0.57–1.14)	0.235	0.83 (0.57–1.20)	0.316
urgent (yellow)	ref	ref	ref	ref
very urgent (orange)	0.53 (0.39–0.72)	<0.001	0.55 (0.39–0.78)	0.001
Organisation-related determinants
Number of ED patients upon arrival time
0–14 patients	ref	ref	ref	ref
>14 patients	0.60 (0.45–0.80)	0.001	0.63 (0.47–0.86)	0.003
Day of arrival
Weekday	ref	ref	ref	ref
Weekend	0.84 (0.62–1.13)	0.242	0.83 (0.58–1.17)	0.285
Time of arrival		0.067*		0.138*
Day (8–16 h)	ref	ref	ref	ref
Evening (16–23 h)	0.74 (0.56–0.98)	0.035	0.77 (0.57–1.05)	0.094
Night (23–8 h)	0.73 (0.49–1.09)	0.12	0.24 (0.02–2.77)	0.251

^* P-value testing whether the overall variable is statistically significant for categorical variables with more than two categories.