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EDs’ characteristics associated with the offering and acceptance of HIV-RT in the EDs (multivariate analysis^a).

<p>^aTeam support, proportion of seriously ill patients, length of stay, time and number of beds in the hospital are continuous variables. All the others are categorical variables *P<.05.</p

Patient flow diagram.

<p>*Exclusion criteria were the following: age <18 years or age >65 years (51%), serious/unstable illness (15%), inability to provide consent (31%), known HIV seropositivity (2%).</p

Components of the offering/acceptance variance and impact of entering EDs’ characteristics in the regression analysis.

*<p>The variance partition coefficient (VPC) indicates the proportion of the total variance (the sum of 1st level (days) and 2nd level (EDs) variances) that it is accounted for by the 2nd level variance. The VPC was calculated using the equation VPC_h = σ²_h/(σ²_h +3.29), where σ²_h represents the ED level variance (Snijders, T. and Bosker, R. [1999]. Multilevel Analysis. Sage).</p

Sample’s characteristics.

*<p>p<0.05.</p

Hospital characteristics.

*<p>Standardized mortality ratio based on mortality predicted by SAPS II score.</p

Association of standardized ICU eligibility rate with all standardized outcomes.

<p>Association of standardized ICU eligibility rate with all standardized outcomes.</p

Inclusion and follow-up in the ICE-CUB study.

<p>*documented in the CRF, including complete evaluation of the patient's state: functional status, comorbidities, medication, falls, recent hospitalization.</p

Multivariate models of outcome following the ED visit.

<p>Results are adjusted for severity (logit of the MPM₀ score corrected from the points attributed to age) and main presenting problem as assessed in ED.</p>*<p>defined as a one-point loss on at least one dimension of the ADL score six months after the ED visit;</p>**<p>estimated true inter-hospital variance;</p>***<p>The Median Odds Ratio (MOR) is defined as the median value of the odds ratio between the hospital at highest risk and the hospital at lowest risk for two randomly chosen hospital.</p

Geriatric conditions of the patients according to physician decisions.

<p>Results for continuous and categorical variables are presented respectively as the mean (sd; median ; Inter-Quartile Range) and % (n).</p>*<p>significant difference (P<0.05).</p>†<p>assessed using Katz's Activities of Daily Living scale (ADL).</p>‡<p>  as assessed by the evaluating physician.</p