Predictors of the length of hospital stay among hospice patients who survived to discharge (n=1457): multivariate accelerated event time survival analysis results
| Patient predictors | Event time ratio (95% CI) (p value) |
|---|---|
| Discharge destination | |
| Hospice | 1.00 (referent) |
| Healthcare facility | 1.74 (1.54 to 1.97) (<0.0001) |
| Home | 1.61 (1.39 to 1.86) (<0.0001) |
| Age, years | |
| ≤64 | 1.00 (referent) |
| 65–74 | 0.73 (0.64 to 0.84) (<0.0001) |
| 75–84 | 0.69 (0.61 to 0.78) (<0.0001) |
| 85–94 | 0.65 (0.58 to 0.74) (<0.0001) |
| 95+ | 0.72 (0.61 to 0.86) (0.0003) |
| Race/ethnicity | |
| White | 1.00 (referent) |
| Hispanic | 1.12 (1.03 to 1.22) (0.01) |
| Black | 1.06 (0.92 to 1.22) (0.44) |
| Other | 1.82 (1.37 to 2.42) (<0.0001) |
| Payer | |
| Private insurance | 1.00 (referent) |
| Medicare/Medicaid | 1.74 (1.50 to 2.02) (<0.0001) |
| Tricare/Federal | 1.21 (1.09 to 1.34) (0.0002) |
| Other | 0.93 (0.84 to 1.04) (0.21) |
| Clinical diagnoses (present vs absent) | |
| Medical complications/infections | 1.43 (1.18 to 1.73) (0.0002) |
| Stroke | 1.29 (1.15 to 1.44) (<0.0001) |
| Heart failure | 1.18 (1.07 to 1.30) (0.001) |
| Psychosis | 1.13 (1.04 to 1.23) (0.04) |
| Pneumonia/influenza | 1.11 (1.00 to 1.24) (0.06) |
| Other heart disease* | 0.92 (0.85 to 1.01) (0.08) |
| Cancer | 1.07 (0.98 to 1.17) (0.11) |
*Excludes ischaemic heart disease and heart failure. Includes endocarditis, pericarditis, valve disease, cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension and other specified and ill-defined diseases of the heart.