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Table 3 Association between components of objective health and physician-rated health

From: Discordance between physician-rated health and an objective health measure among institutionalized older people

 

Physician rating

Variable a

Good

Fair

Poor

 

RRR b (95%CI)

RRR b (95%CI)

RRR b (95%CI)

Functional dependency

1.00 (reference)

2.05 (1.35-3.11)

5.94 (2.77-12.77)

Medical conditions

1.00 (reference)

3.05 (2.20-4.21)

3.11 (1.87-5.17)

Cognitive status

1.00 (reference)

1.37 (0.89-2.13)

1.47 (0.76-2.83)

  1. a Entered in models as 1, 2 or 3, for the low, intermediate and high severity level, respectively
  2. b Relative risk ratios of receiving fair and poor, as compared to good, physician rating for each increase of 1 in the level of severity of the independent variables, adjusted for baseline age, sex, facility type and the 3 components of the table, from a multinomial logistic regression model
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BMC Geriatrics

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