Table 2.

Association Between Fragmented Care and Readmission In-Hospital Mortality for Older Adults Readmitted in the State They Reside in and a Different State than They Reside in, 30-Day Readmissions

	Fragmented/same state	Nonfragmented/different state	Fragmented/different state
Nonfragmented/same state (REF)	1.18 (1.14, 1.23)	0.92 (0.86, 0.99)	1.29 (1.08, 1.55)
Fragmented/same state (REF)	--	0.78 (0.72, 0.84)	1.09 (0.91, 1.31)
Nonfragmented/different state (REF)	1.29 (1.19, 1.39)	--	1.40 (1.15, 1.71)

All estimates correspond to a weighted adjusted odds ratio for in-hospital mortality (95% confidence intervals) for an exposure (column) relative to the reference group (row). Statistically significant results are in bold

The model adjusts for the major diagnostic category (MDC) of the readmission, all patients refined diagnosis related groups (APR-DRG) mortality score, alcohol use, drug use, left against medical advice, age, sex, payer, zip income quartile, hospital urban/rural status, if the admission was elective or not, if the admission originated in the emergency department or not