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Table 3 Rates of hospitalizations and ACS hospitalizations according to the characteristics of nursing home residents with feeding tubes

From: Emergency department visits and hospitalizations by tube-fed nursing home residents with varying degrees of cognitive impairment: a national study

Characteristic

Hospitalization rate, no. (%)

Hospitalization incident rate ratios (95% confidence interval)

ACS Hosp rate, no. (%)

ACS Hosp incident rate ratios (95% confidence interval)

  

Unadjusted

Adjusted+

 

Unadjusted

Adjusted+

Total

553 (15.9)

  

242 (6.9)

  

Severity of cognitive impairment1

      

 No/Mild

138 (17.6)

1.02 (.88-1.91)

1.13 (.96-1.32)

54 (6.9)

.99 (.82-1.20)

1.18 (.97-1.44)

 Mild/Moderate

167 (15.1)

Ref

Ref

85 (7.7)

Ref

Ref

 Moderate/Severe

94 (16.2)

1.03 (.86-1.24)

.98 (.82-1.18)

37 (6.4)

.95 (.75-1.19)

.89 (.71-1.12)

 Very severe

154 (15.4)

1.09 (.92-1.27)

.93 (.78-1.10)

66 (6.6)

.98 (.81-1.20)

.87 (.70-1.09)

  1. +Adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, marital status, diagnoses/conditions, level of ADL impairment, DNR order present, any urinary catheter use.
  2. 1Severity of Cognitive Impairment was measured by the Cognitive Performance Scale (CPS) – No/Mild (0, 1); Mild/Moderate (2, 3); Moderate/Severe (4, 5); Very Severe (6).