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Table 5 Odds Ratio of Emergency Severity Index, Hospital Admission, ICU Admission, Medical Resources Utilization for Patients with versus without Depression, NHAMCS 2014–2016

From: Analysis of emergency department visits for all reasons by adults with depression in the United States

 

Crude Odds Ratio

Adjusted for variablesa

Demographic

+ Socioeconomic

+ Visiting & Clinical

ESI Score: 1 or 2 vs. 4 or 5

1.88(1.69–2.08)

1.93(1.74–2.14)

1.85(1.67–2.06)

1.33(1.18–1.49)

ESI Score: Urgent vs. Semi- or Non-Urgent

1.29(1.19–1.39)

1.28(1.18–1.38)

1.25(1.16–1.35)

1.11(1.02–1.20)

Hospital Admission

1.88(1.75–2.02)

2.01(1.86–2.17)

1.84(1.70–1.99)

1.50(1.38–1.63)

ICU

1.41(1.15–1.73)

1.46(1.19–1.80)

1.32(1.07–1.63)

1.10(0.88–1.37)

Death

0.55(0.32–0.95)

0.62(0.36–1.07)

0.58(0.33–1.00)

0.43(0.24–0.77)

Left

0.81(0.66–0.99)

0.81(0.66–0.99)

0.80(0.65–0.98)

0.77(0.62–0.95)

Blood test

1.55(1.46–1.65)

1.54(1.45–1.63)

1.52(1.43–1.61)

1.33(1.24–1.43)

Any imaging

0.87(0.82–0.92)

0.85(0.80–0.90)

0.84(0.79–0.90)

0.89(0.84–0.95)

X-ray

0.94(0.89–1.00)

0.93(0.87–0.99)

0.92(0.87–0.99)

0.95(0.89–1.02)

CT

1.03(0.96–1.11)

1.02(0.95–1.10)

1.01(0.94–1.09)

0.97(0.89–1.05)

Ultrasound

0.75(0.65–0.87)

0.73(0.63–0.84)

0.74(0.64–0.86)

0.84(0.71–0.98)

MRI

0.81(0.59–1.11)

0.79(0.58–1.08)

0.84(0.61–1.16)

0.82(0.59–1.14)

Procedure

0.90(0.85–0.96)

0.90(0.85–0.96)

0.90(0.85–0.96)

0.92(0.86–0.97)

  1. a“Demographic” includes gender, age group, and race/ethnicity; “socioeconomic” includes residence type, insurance type, and census region; “visiting & clinical” includes year, day of the week, arrival by ambulance, seen within last 72 h, pain level, temperature, heart rate, dialytic blood pressure, injury status, and reason for visit