Table 3

ORs for acute hospitalisation according to self-rated health and degree-of-worry (DOW) in a crude, age-and-sex-adjusted and fully adjusted model

Crude OR (95% CI)Adjusted for sex and age OR (95% CI)Adjusted for sex, age, comorbidity, reason for calling and DOW OR (95% CI)
Self-rated health (SRH)
 1, excellentRefRefRef
 21.0 (0.7 to 1.5)0.9 (0.6 to 1.4)0.9 (0.6 to 1.4)
 31.4 (0.9 to 2.0)1.0 (0.6 to 1.5)0.8 (0.6 to 1.4)
 42.5 (1.7 to 3.6)1.4 (0.9 to 2.1)1.1 (0.7 to 1.6)
 5, poor5.4 (3.8 to 7.8)2.6 (1.8 to 3.9)1.6 (1.1 to 2.4)
DOW
 1, minimal worryRefRefRef
 20.7 (0.4 to 1.3)0.8 (0.4 to 1.6)0.9 (0.5 to 1.6)
 31.9 (1.1 to 3.2)1.8 (1.1 to 3.1)1.8 (1.1 to 3.1)
 44.86 (2.9 to 8.15)3.9 (2.3 to 6.6)3.5 (2.1 to 6.1)
 5, maximum worry5.9 (3.5 to 10.0)4.1 (2.4 to 7.0)3.5 (2.0 to 5.9)