Clinical and functional patient characteristics predict medical needs in older patients at risk of functional decline

Table 4 Predictors of receiving physiotherapy during hospital stay

	Unadjusted			Model 1 Corrected R² = 0.050			Model 2 Corrected R² = 0.291
	RR	95% CI	P	RR	95% CI	P	RR	95% CI	P
Age (years)	1.01	0.99;1.04	0.357	1.01	0.98;1.03	0.751	0.97	0.93;1.02	0.206
Sex (male vs female)	1.52	1.08;2.16	0.018*	1.52	1.07;2.14	0.018*	1.02	0.59;1.61	0.933
Number of admission diagnoses	1.06	1.04;1.08	< 0.001†
ISAR score	1.17	1.00;1.36	0.050	1.16	0.99;1.35	0.053
ADL impairment (yes vs no)	3.54	2.29;5.47	< 0.001†				3.16	1.76;5.67	< 0.001†
Mobility impairment (yes vs no)	1.44	0.84;2.46	0.186				0.69	0.39;1.22	0.206
Cognition impairment (yes vs no)	1.77	1.20;2.62	0.004*				1.69	0.96;2.97	0.070
Signs of depression (yes vs no)	1.99	1.39;2.85	< 0.001				1.86	1.03;3.37	0.039*
				Model 3 Corrected R² = 0.291			Model 4 Corrected R² = 0.336
				RR	95% CI	P	RR	95% CI	P
Age (years)				0.97	0.93;1.02	0.203	0.98	0.93;1.02	0.288
Sex (male vs female)				1.04	0.62;1.74	0.896	1.05	0.62;1.77	0.854
Number of admission diagnoses							1.06	1.02;1.09	0.001
ISAR score				1.04	0.79;1.37	0.791	1.02	0.76;1.36	0.914
ADL impairment (yes vs no)				3.12	1.71;5.67	< 0.001†	2.86	1.57;5.20	0.001†
Mobility impairment (yes vs no)				0.69	0.39;1.22	0.198	0.75	0.42;1.32	0.315
Cognition impairment (yes vs no)				1.67	0.94;2.96	0.080	1.75	1.00;3.05	0.050
Signs of depression (yes vs no)				1.85	1.03;3.33	0.039*	1.75	0.96;3.20	0.070

ADL activities of daily living, ISAR Identification of Seniors at Risk, CI confidence interval, RR relative risk, * p ≤ 0.05 or † p ≤ 0.001

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