From: Application of standardised effect sizes to hospital discharge outcomes for people with diabetes
Assessment of statistically significant association between risk factors and readmission at 30 days. | Statistical Test | All diabetes discharges | Emergency admission discharges | Elective admission discharges | Emergency admission surgical discharges | Emergency admission medical discharges | T1DM Surgical patients | T2DM Surgical patients | T1DM Medical patients | T2DM Medical patients |
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Age | TTEST | < 0.01 | 0.33 | < 0.01 | 0.09 | 0.08 | < 0.01 | 0.6 | 0.07 | 0.94 |
Sex | CHISQ | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.62 | 0.06 | 0.39 | < 0.01 | 0.42 | < 0.01 | 0.16 |
Co-morbidity burden | TTEST | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | 0.56 | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | 0.07 | < 0.01 |
Previous DKA | CHISQ | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | 0.68 | < 0.01 | 0.57 | 0.19 | 0.75 |
Dementia | CHISQ | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.09 | < 0.01 | 0.27 | 0.12 | 0.34 | 0.02 |
DSN review | CHISQ | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | 0.18 | < 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.38 | < 0.01 | < 0.01 |
T1DM | CHISQ | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | 0.03 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
T2DM patients | CHISQ | < 0.01 | 0.10 | < 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.46 | ||||
Unknown diabetes type | CHISQ | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | 0.15 | < 0.01 | ||||
Weekend Discharged | CHISQ | < 0.01 | 0.06 | < 0.01 | 0.01 | < 0.01 | 0.44 | 0.03 | 0.29 | 0.36 |