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Table 2 General contextual effects of hospital- and regional-level variables in our multilevel logistic regression analysis

From: Hospital and regional variations in intensive care unit admission for patients with invasive mechanical ventilation

Statistic

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Hospital-level

   

ICC (%)

82.2 (79.1, 85.0)

81.9 (78.7, 84.7)

18.3 (15.2, 21.9)

MOR

41.4 (25.6, 57.2)

39.7 (24.8, 54.5)

2.27 (2.06, 2.48)

PCV (%)

   

Models 1 and 2

Ref

2.3

Models 2 and 3

Ref

95.2

AUC

0.837

0.891

0.891

Difference in AUCs

   

Models 1 and 2

Ref

0.054

Models 2 and 3

Ref

0

Regional-level

   

ICC (%)

67.3 (60.5, 73.5)

67.5 (60.7, 73.7)

22.2 (16.8, 28.7)

MOR

12.0 (7.55, 16.4)

12.1 (7.62, 16.6)

2.52 (2.12, 2.92)

PCV (%)

   

Models 1 and 2

Ref

–1.0

Models 2 and 3

Ref

86.2

AUC

0.713

0.821

0.821

Difference in AUCs

   

 Models 1 and 2

Ref

0.108

 Models 2 and 3

Ref

0

  1. Model 1: multilevel logistic regression with random intercepts for clusters; Model 2: multilevel logistic regression with patient-level covariates and random intercepts for clusters; and Model 3: multilevel logistic regression with patient-level variables, cluster-level variables, and random intercepts for clusters
  2. ICU intraclass correlation coefficient, ICC intensive care unit, MOR median odds ratio, PCV proportional change in variance, AUC area under the receiver operating characteristic curve