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Table 3 Regression parameters of the final logistic regression model obtained from stepwise forward variable selection (n = 9194)

From: Discontinuity of psychiatric care for patients with schizophrenia, relation to previous psychiatric care and practice variation between providers: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study

 

category

ln (OR)

SE

Chi2

p-value

OR (95%-CI)

Demographic characteristics

 Age

19–22

reference

    

23–26

0.108

0.114

0.899

0.343

1.11 (0.89, 1.39)

27–38

− 0.105

0.071

2.175

0.140

0.90 (0.78, 1.04)

39–61

−0.252

0.062

16.518

< 0.0001

0.78 (0.69, 0.88)

62–69

−0.051

0.092

0.302

0.583

0.95 (0.79, 1.14)

Psychiatric care characteristics

 Amount of elective carea

<=€3000

reference

    

> €3000

−0.206

0.045

20.685

< 0.0001

0.81 (0.74, 0.89)

 Amount of acute careb

€0

reference

    

€0 - €10,000

0.142

0.092

2.384

0.123

1.15 (0.96, 1.38)

€10,000 - €60,000

0.026

0.095

0.074

0.786

1.03 (0.85, 1.24)

€60,000 - €90,000

−0.233

0.182

1.640

0.200

0.79 (0.55, 1.13)

> €90,000

0.300

0.164

3.336

0.068

1.35 (0.98, 1.86)

 Number of quartersc

Both E and A

−0.317

0.013

598.308

< 0.0001

0.73 (0.71, 0.75)

E onlyd

reference

    

A only

−0.323

0.034

91.707

< 0.0001

0.72 (0.68, 0.77)

Neither E nor A

−0.055

0.022

6.039

0.014

0.95 (0.91, 0.99)

 Intercept

 

0.376

0.118

10.16

0.001

1.46 (1.16, 1.84)

  1. a Costs of elective care in the two-year period; b Costs of acute care in the two-year period;c Number of quarters within the two-year period receiving types of care: E = Elective psychiatric care; A = Antipsychotic medication; d One of the four variables was not entered into the model due to perfect multicollinearity, since for each patient these four variables add up to 8