Outcome | Significant (p<0.05) interaction term with hospital safety net burden | Category of hospital safety net burden | Reference category | Linear combination OR (95% CI) |
Any complication | Medicaid patients | High safety net burden | Private insurance, low safety net burden | 1.33 (1.15 to 1.54)*** |
Cardiovascular complication | Other insurance | High safety net burden | Private insurance, low safety net burden | 0.73 (0.45 to 1.17)† |
LOS | Medicaid patients | Medium safety net burden | Private insurance, low safety net burden | 1.22 (1.19 to 1.24)***‡ |
LOS | Medicare | High safety net burden | Private insurance, low safety net burden | 1.12 (1.11 to 1.13)***‡ |
LOS | Other insurance | High safety net burden | Private insurance, low safety net burden | 1.29 (1.26 to 1.33)***‡ |
LOS | Uninsured | High safety net burden | Private insurance, low safety net burden | 1.48 (1.34 to 1.64)***‡ |
LOS | Hispanic | Medium safety net burden | White, low safety net burden | 1.10 (1.08 to 1.11)***‡ |
LOS | Missing (race) | Medium safety net burden | White, low safety net burden | 1.09 (1.07 to 1.11)***‡ |
LOS | Other race | High safety net burden | White, low safety net burden | 1.24 (1.19 to 1.30)***‡ |
LOS | Missing (race) | High safety net burden | White, low safety net burden | 1.19 (1.15 to 1.22)***‡ |
LOS | Fourth quartile median income | High safety net burden | First quartile, low safety net burden | 1.04 (1.02 to 1.05)***‡ |
LOS | Missing (income) | High safety net burden | First quartile, low safety net burden | 1.29 (1.21 to 1.37)***‡ |
*P<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.
†P=0.19. Though this model with interaction terms was shown to be a significantly better fit than the main model, its linear combination of coefficeints was not significant at alpha=0.05.
‡Incidence rate ratio (IRR), 95% CI.