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Table 3 Association of Socio-economic position (SEP) with Prolonged length of stay (LOS)

From: Length of paediatric inpatient stay, socio-economic status and hospital configuration: a retrospective cohort study

  

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Model 4

LOS

IDACI (quartiles)

OR

95% CI

p value

OR

95% CI

p value

OR

95% CI

p value

OR

95% CI

p value

≥ to 1.8 days (mean)

1st (least)

1.00

-

-

1.00

-

-

1.00

-

-

1.00

-

-

2nd

1.04

0.84, 1.29

0.696

1.07

0.86, 1.34

0.54

1.07

0.85, 1.35

0.538

1.03

0.81, 1.30

0.824

3rd

1.26

1.02, 1.56

0.035

1.29

1.04, 1.61

0.023

1.27

1.01, 1.59

0.041

1.24

0.98, 1.57

0.068

4th (most)

0.98

0.78, 1.24

0.757

0.97

0.77, 1.23

0.795

1.00

0.78, 1.27

0.992

0.96

0.75, 1.23

0.746

≥to 4 days

1st (least)

1.00

-

-

1.00

-

-

1.00

-

-

1.00

-

-

2nd

1.13

0.88, 1.49

0.325

1.16

0.88, 1.52

0.285

1.18

0.89, 1.56

0.246

1.17

0.88, 1.57

0.288

3rd

1.27

0.97, 1.64

0.069

1.28

0.98, 1.68

0.072

1.23

0.93, 1.62

0.151

1.20

0.91, 1.59

0.196

4th (most)

0.96

0.70, 1.25

0.767

0.93

0.69, 1.25

0.638

0.96

0.71, 1.30

0.813

0.96

0.71, 1.30

0.789

>24 h (median)

1st (least)

1.00

-

-

1.00

-

-

1.00

-

-

1.00

-

-

2nd

1.21

0.94, 1.56

0.1516

1.19

0.92, 1.55

0.189

1.17

0.90, 1.54

0.237

1.05

0.79, 1.41

0.730

3rd

1.17

0.91, 1.51

0.221

1.17

0.90, 1.52

0.233

1.14

0.87, 1.49

0.359

1.11

0.83, 1.49

0.476

4th (most)

1.18

0.90, 1.54

0.230

1.14

0.87, 1.50

0.33

1.18

0.89, 1.57

0.249

1.07

0.79, 1.45

0.670

  

IRR

95% CI

p value

IRR

95% CI

p value

IRR

95% CI

p value

IRR

95% CI

p value

Days

1st (least)

ref

-

-

ref

-

-

ref

-

-

ref

-

-

2nd

1.07

0.95, 1.19

0.298

1.06

0.95, 1.19

0.310

1.06

0.94, 1.18

0.351

1.05

0.93, 1.17

0.443

3rd

1.16

1.04, 1.30

0.009

1.17

1.04, 1.31

0.009

1.14

1.02, 1.28

0.022

1.13

1.01, 1.27

0.027

4th (most)

1.14

1.01, 1.29

0.031

1.12

0.99, 1.27

0.061

1.13

1.01, 1.28

0.040

1.12

1.00, 1.26

0.056

  1. CI Confidence interval, IDACI Income deprivation affecting children index, IRR Incident Rate Ratio, LOS Length of stay, OR Odds ratio; ref: reference category
  2. Model 1: Adjusted for admission hospital and quartile of IDACI; as defined in Tables 1 and 2
  3. Model 2: Additionally adjusted for age (groups), gender, ethnicity (group) - as defined in Tables 1 and 2.
  4. Model 3: Additionally adjusted for final diagnosis, medical or surgical specialty and number of hospital admissions during the study period
  5. Model 4: Additionally adjusted for source of admission, weekend or week day admission, season and time of admission and readmission within 28 days- as defined in Tables 1 and 2)