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Table 6 Summary of the risk factors of ELOHS for all patients showing the relative risks (RR) and P-values obtained from a multivariate logistic model (* are significant features at 95% level)

From: Preadmission assessment of extended length of hospital stay with RFECV-ETC and hospital-specific data

Parameters

Size

RR (95% CI)

P-value

Parameters

size

RR (95% CI)

P-value

VMO specialty

Admission type

Orthopaedic surgery

3379

Ref.

 

M

11,943

Ref.

 

Breast surgery

380

0.19 (0.14–0.28)

 < 0.001*

AS

3892

0.84 (0.73–0.95)

0.008*

Cardiology

3313

0.25 (0.22–0.28)

 < 0.001*

AS2

2494

1.99 (1.73–2.29)

 < 0.001*

Cardiothoracic Surg

701

0.33 (0.25–0.44)

 < 0.001*

AS3

1015

0.95 (0.78–1.17)

0.634

Colorectal surgery

1674

0.28 (0.24–0.34)

 < 0.001*

AS4

808

0.46 (0.36–0.6)

 < 0.001*

ENT surgery

1175

0.12 (0.09–0.17)

 < 0.001*

CA

173

0.16 (0.06–0.46)

 < 0.001*

Emergency physician

321

n/a

0.999

M2

393

1.86 (1.48–2.34)

 < 0.001*

Endocrine surgery

219

0.09 (0.04–0.17)

 < 0.001*

M3

604

0.84 (0.67–1.03)

0.097

Endocrinology

620

0.41 (0.33–0.5)

 < 0.001*

NEW

140

2.77 (1.24–6.17)

0.013*

Gastroenterology

1630

0.28 (0.23–0.32)

 < 0.001*

O3

111

n/a

0.999

General Medicine Phy

2349

0.3 (0.26–0.35)

 < 0.001*

OBC

724

0.28 (0.11–0.7)

0.007*

General Paed. Surg

112

0.94 (0.38–2.32)

0.886

OBN

1039

0.03 (0.01–0.14)

 < 0.001*

General Paed.Med

340

0.33 (0.17–0.67)

0.002*

Others

558

1.81 (1.45–2.26)

 < 0.001*

Gerontology

1285

0.28 (0.24–0.34)

 < 0.001*

S

8520

1.37 (1.25–1.5)

 < 0.001*

Gynaecology

464

0.17 (0.12–0.24)

 < 0.001*

S2

2214

1.71 (1.5–1.96)

 < 0.001*

Haematology

619

0.34 (0.27–0.43)

 < 0.001*

Charlson Score

Hepato/biliary/pancr

693

0.17 (0.12–0.22)

 < 0.001*

0

7994

Ref

 < 0.001*

Infectious disease

184

0.69 (0.49–0.98)

0.035*

1

3020

0.34 (0.25–0.47)

 < 0.001*

Medical oncology

1374

0.25 (0.21–0.31)

 < 0.001*

2

4230

0.32 (0.23–0.43)

 < 0.001*

Nephrology

839

0.54 (0.45–0.65)

 < 0.001*

3

5751

0.31 (0.22–0.42)

 < 0.001*

Neurology

824

0.46 (0.38–0.55)

 < 0.001*

4

7658

0.39 (0.29–0.54)

 < 0.001*

Neurosurgery

1204

0.17 (0.13–0.22)

 < 0.001*

5

2844

0.43 (0.31–0.6)

 < 0.001*

Obstetrics

109

n/a

0.999

6

1357

0.52 (0.37–0.72)

 < 0.001*

Obstetrics & Gynae

2063

0.06 (0.04–0.1)

 < 0.001*

7

546

0.68 (0.47–0.99)

0.043*

Ophthalmic surgery

302

0.08 (0.04–0.15)

 < 0.001*

 > 8

1228

0.56 (0.4–0.79)

0.001*

Plastic/recon surg

1822

0.44 (0.38–0.51)

 < 0.001*

Patient religion

Respiratory medicine

1054

0.28 (0.23–0.33)

 < 0.001

No religion

8441

Ref

 

Trainee

282

n/a

0.999

Anglican

4714

0.78 (0.7–0.87)

 < 0.001*

Upper GI surgery

1358

0.15 (0.12–0.18)

 < 0.001*

Baptist

170

1.04 (0.68–1.6)

0.84

Urogynaecology

134

0.08 (0.03–0.19)

 < 0.001*

Catholic

7224

0.77 (0.7–0.84)

 < 0.001*

Urology

2493

0.25 (0.21–0.29)

 < 0.001*

Christian

1396

0.51 (0.42–0.62)

 < 0.001*

Vascular surgery

711

0.38 (0.3–0.47)

 < 0.001*

Christian (others)

392

0.59 (0.42–0.82)

0.002*

Others

601

0.43 (0.34–0.55)

 < 0.001*

Greek Orthodox

1109

0.62 (0.51–0.75)

 < 0.001*

Patient age (years)

Jewish

3513

0.62 (0.55–0.7)

 < 0.001*

20–50

Ref.

  

Lutheran

135

0.62 (0.37–1.04)

0.069

50–60

3386

0.99 (0.73–1.34)

0.95

Methodist

112

0.68 (0.4–1.16)

0.161

60–70

5202

1.19 (0.87–1.62)

0.272

Presbyterian

571

0.8 (0.64–1.02)

0.067

70–80

7409

1.5 (1.1–2.05)

0.011*

Protestant

302

0.99 (0.73–1.33)

0.935

80–90

6764

1.74 (1.27–2.38)

 < 0.001*

Religion (others)

894

0.53 (0.41–0.68)

 < 0.001*

 < 20

1794

0.06 (0.04–0.09)

 < 0.001*

Undefined

4444

0.53 (0.47–0.6)

 < 0.001*

 > 90

3524

1.85 (1.34–2.56)

 < 0.001*

Uniting church

1211

0.81 (0.68–0.96)

0.013*

Patient gender

Distance to hospital (km)

Female

19,887

Ref.

 

0-5 km

11,519

Ref.

 

Male

14,741

0.63 (0.59–0.67)

 < 0.001*

 > 20 km

7284

0.64 (0.56–0.73)

 < 0.001*

Admission category

5-10 km

8936

0.72 (0.67–0.78)

 < 0.001*

PL1

16,734

Ref.

 < 0.001*

10-20 km

6889

0.75 (0.68–0.82)

 < 0.001*

EMG

11,619

2.11 (1.93–2.31)

 < 0.001*

Socioeconomic status

MAT

1865

1.41 (0.64–3.11)

0.39

High

29,131

Ref.

 

Others

258

4.11 (2.71–6.24)

 < 0.001*

Middle

2998

1.28 (1.1–1.5)

0.002*

UC1

2739

3.17 (2.82–3.55)

 < 0.001*

Low

2487

1.45 (1.24–1.7)

 < 0.001*

US1

1413

3.64 (3.09–4.28)

 < 0.001*

    
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