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Table 2 Rate ratios (95% confidence intervals) for all-cause hospitalizations during 2-year follow-up period, by frailty/cognition status at baseline

From: The combined effects of physical frailty and cognitive impairment on emergency department- versus direct-admission hospitalizations

 

Analytic Model 1a

Analytic Model 2b

Analytic Model 3c

Frailty Model

 Not Frail (Reference)

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Frail

1.70 (1.43,2.01)

1.42 (1.19,1.70)

1.24 (1.03,1.50)

Cognitive Impairment Model

 No Cognitive Impairment (Reference)

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Cognitively impaired (CI)

1.43 (1.26,1.63)

1.20 (1.04,1.39)

1.21 (1.04,1.39)

Combined Model

 Unimpaired (Reference)

1.00

1.00

1.00

 CI only

1.38 (1.20,1.59)

1.19 (1.02,1.38)

1.20 (1.03,1.40)

 Frailty only

1.61 (1.21,2.13)

1.39 (1.05,1.85)

1.23 (0.92,1.89)

 CI + Frailty

2.14 (1.73,2.64)

1.68 (1.32,2.13)

1.48 (1.16,1.89)

  1. a unadjusted
  2. b controlled for age (continuous), gender, race/ethnicity, education, income, obesity
  3. c controlled for model 2 + comorbidity (continuous), dependency