3 factors were associated with CYP: type of facility, length of time in operation, and number of contraceptive methods available.
Facility length of ownership was another potential confounder considered for analysis and was identified by examining each facility's ascribed organization over historically successive USRDS Facility Reports (2007 2010).
For the second model (Model 2), adjustments were made according to Model 1 plus, geographic variations (ESRD network) and facility length of ownership.
Multivariate analysis showed 3 variables were associated with CYP: type of health facility, length of time in operation, and number of contraceptive methods available.
As seen in the multivariate model (Table 6), 3 variables were associated with CYP: type of health facility, length of time in operation, and number of contraceptive methods available.
There were statistical differences between the cohorts in geography, facility length of ownership, vascular access, and pre-dialysis nephrology care (p < 0.001), as well as age (p < 0.01), race (p < 0.001), and vintage (p < 0.001), but not sex (p = 0.12).
Indicators in the facility-based questionnaire included total number of health workers, number of health workers who had left the facility, characteristics of health workers who left the facility (length of work experience and educational background) and the institution to which the health workers moved.
The unmeasured confounding in the previous study likely included the specific differences we identified in facility geography, length of facility ownership, vascular access at first dialysis session, and pre-dialysis nephrology care [ 15].
In networks with four or more eligible health centres, we stratified facilities by length of ART delivery.
Solutions to such problems might be holistic initiatives such as, for instance, integrated PRM care pathways [ 6, 52] and early supported discharge procedures which have been shown to reduce long-term dependency, admissions to institutional care facilities, and length of hospital stay, at least in a selected elderly group of stroke patients with moderate disability [ 53].
