Patient Involvement in Decisions regarding Emergency Department Discharge: A Multimethod Study

Table 2

The univariate and multivariate odds ratio of patients feeling involved (N = 603).

Risk factors	Univariate		Multivariate
	Odds ratio (95% CI)		Odds ratio (95% CI)
Discharge from the ED
Going home vs. inpatient	1.481 (1.059–2.071)	0.022	1.505 (1.074–2.110)	0.018
Gender
Female vs. male	0.961 (0.692–1.335)	0.813
Age (years)
≤60 vs. >60	0.916 (0.653–1.286)	0.613
Living condition
Living with someone vs. living alone	1.145 (0.815–1.608)	0.435
Diagnosis at departure
Surgical vs. medical	1.009 (0.718–1.419)	0.959
Readmission within the past 30 days
No vs. yes	1.889 (1.234–2.891)	0.003	1.919 (1.251–2.942)	0.003
Psychiatric diagnosis
No vs. yes	1.359 (0.725–2.549)	0.338
Comorbidity (Charlson comorbidity index)
None vs. comorbidity	1.164 (0.730–1.855)	0.524

Modeling the variables for the model of analysis reduced the sample to 612 because of missing data.