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Table 3 Estimates for fixed and random effects from multilevel linear regression analysis (random intercept model) for self-reported health as dependent variable and goodness-of-fit statistics

From: Self-reported health and life satisfaction in older emergency department patients: sociodemographic, disease-related and care-specific associated factors

Fixed effects

Coefficient

95% CI

SE

p-value

 Intercept

38.81

27.78; 51.77

6.31

<.001

 Sex: Female

3.30

0.53; 5.76

1.35

.014

 Study (reference category: EMAAge):

  EMACROSS

−5.72

−10.64; − 1.65

2.36

.015

  EMASPOT

4.35

0.32; 8.28

2.07

.036

 Education (reference category: Primary level)

  Secondary level

0.09

−2.93; 3.53

1.67

.958

  Tertiary level

0.67

−2.52; 4.57

1.85

.717

 Social contacts (reference category: None)

  1–2 persons

4.50

−2.33; 11.79

3.63

.215

  3 or more persons

3.87

−2.80; 11.08

3.57

.278

 Care dependency: Yes

−7.52

−11.49; −3.70

2.00

<.001

 Migration background: Yes

2.06

−1.21; 5.43

1.71

.228

 Employment status (reference category: Employed):

  Retired

−3.32

−7.59; 0.92

2.19

.130

  Not (regularly) employed

−8.54

−14.05; −3.38

2.74

.002

  Other

−3.99

−11.22; 3.63

3.82

.297

 ED visit: Yes

−2.29

−5.48; 0.79

1.61

.156

 Hospital stay: Yes

−4.67

−8.09; −1.35

1.73

.007

 GP visit: Yes

0.88

−2.40; 4.33

1.73

.610

 MTS level: Non-urgent

2.60

−1.01; 5.46

1.68

.121

 Transportation to ED (reference category: Walk-in):

  Non-urgent medically accompanied transport

−0.54

−6.08; 4.18

2.65

.839

  Emergency medical services

1.35

−1.82; 4.63

1.66

.417

  EMS with emergency physician

2.90

−1.53; 7.37

2.29

.205

 Age (in years)

−0.12

−0.27; 0.02

0.07

.093

 Life satisfaction

2.22

1.68; 2.75

0.28

<.001

Random effects

Variance Component

SD

Level-two variance: ED

6.74

2.60

Level-one variance:

457.24

21.38

Marginal R2 (fixed effects):

0.1769

Conditional R2 (fixed and random effects):

0.1888

ICC:

0.0286

  1. Note: N = 1096; Level 2: n = 8 emergency departments; CI Confidence interval, SE Standard error, SD Standard deviation, ED Emergency department, GP General practitioner, ICC Intraclass correlation coefficient, MTS Manchester Triage System, EMS Emergency medical services