Patients’ perceptions of interactions with hospital staff are associated with hospital readmissions: a national survey of 4535 hospitals

Table 2 Associations between patients’ perceived responsiveness of hospital staff and 30-day readmission for all 6 clinical conditions by hospital readmission rate

Variables	Hospital stratum by readmission rates
	lowest quartile		25th–75th quartile		highest quartile
	Coefficient	P-value	Coefficient	P-value	Coefficient	P-value
Acute myocardial infarction	−0.001	0.448	−0.010	0.002	−0.014	0.013
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	− 0.004	0.138	− 0.009	0.001	− 0.018	0.006
Heart failure	0.001	0.550	−0.006	0.048	−0.006	0.269
Hip/knee surgery	0.005	0.929	−0.003	0.013	−0.011	0.016
Pneumonia	0.003	0.753	−0.007	0.002	−0.007	0.146
Stroke	0.007	0.894	−0.006	0.080	−0.018	0.048

Bold datas indicate p<0.05
Note: Results are summarized from 18 regression models. Full results are shown in the appendix
P values are for the one tailed hypothesis that higher responsiveness is associated with lower 30-day readmission test

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