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

Table 4 Association of Hospital of admission (Hospital P: A&E paediatric led; Hospital A: Adult A&E led) with Prolonged length of stay (LOS)

		Model 1			Model 2			Model 3			Model 4
LOS	Hospital	OR	95% CI	p value	OR	95% CI	p value	OR	95% CI	p value	OR	95% CI	p value
≥1.8 days (mean)	P	1.00	-	-	1.00	-	-	1.00	-	-	1.00	-	-
≥1.8 days (mean)	A	1.15	0.97, 1.37	0.104	1.22	1.02, 1.46	0.030	1.31	1.09, 1.58	0.004	1.41	1.16, 1.70	<0.001
≥4 days	P	1.00	-	-	1.00	-	-	1.00	-	-	1.00	-	-
≥4 days	A	1.06	0.85, 1.31	0.614	1.09	0.87, 1.35	0.456	1.12	0.89, 1.41	0.323	1.14	0.91, 1.44	0.262
>24 h (median)	P	1.00	-	-	1.00	-	-	1.00	-	-	1.00	-	-
>24 h (median)	A	1.28	1.05, 1.57	0.015	1.38	1.12, 1.69	0.002	1.65	1.32, 2.05	<0.001	1.95	1.53, 2.48	<0.001
		IRR	95% CI	p value	IRR	95% CI	p value	IRR	95% CI	p value	IRR	95% CI	p value
Days	P	ref	-	-	ref	-	-	ref	-	-	ref	-	-
Days	A	1.06	0.97, 1.16	0.194	1.09	0.99, 1.19	0.075	1.14	1.04, 1.26	0.005	1.13	1.04, 1.23	0.003

CI Confidence interval, A&E Accident and Emergency department, IDACI Income deprivation affecting children index, IRR Incident Rate Ratio, LOS Length of stay, OR Odds ratio, ref reference category
Model 1: Adjusted for admission hospital and quartile of IDACI; as defined in Tables 1 and 2
Model 2: Additionally adjusted for age (groups), gender, ethnicity (group) - as defined in Tables 1 and 2
Model 3: Additionally adjusted for final diagnosis, medical or surgical specialty and number of hospital admissions during the study period
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)

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