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Table 5 Multivariate regression model of survival at 28 days, according to physicians’ baseline predictions

From: ICU physicians’ and internists’ survival predictions for patients evaluated for admission to the intensive care unit

Physicians’ predictions

Odds ratio*

95% CI

P value

 

Patients admitted to ICU

Intensive care physicians

1.32

0.90–1.93

0.15

Internists

3.05

1.87–4.95

<0.001

 

Patients on ward

Intensive care physicians

1.23

0.78–1.96

0.37

Internists

2.23

1.14–4.34

0.019

  1. *The odds ratios are for a 1 category increase on the 5-point survival prediction scale. Predictions made by internists and by ICU physicians are adjusted for each other