Effects of permissive and limiting strategies in reducing inappropriate retesting among inpatients (binary logistic regression analyses)
| Vitamin D | Vitamin B12 | Folate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR (95% CI) | p Value | OR (95% CI) | p Value | OR (95% CI) | p Value | |
| Age | 0.99 (0.98 to 0.99) | <0.001 | 0.98 (0.97 to 0.99) | 0.01 | 0.99 (0.98 to 1.01) | 0.05 |
| Male gender | 0.73 (0.62 to 0.86) | <0.001 | 1.02 (0.55 to 1.88) | 0.96 | 1.54 (0.84 to 2.81) | 0.16 |
| First value | 1.01 (1.01 to 1.02) | <0.001 | 1.01 (0.99 to 1.01) | 0.70 | 0.96 (0.91 to 1.02) | 0.17 |
| Permissive strategy vs reference | 1.28 (1.05 to 1.55) | 0.01 | 2.21 (1.11 to 4.38) | 0.02 | 1.86 (0.94 to 3.7) | 0.08 |
| Limiting strategy vs reference | 2.53 (2.05 to 3.12) | <0.001 | 0.64 (0.17 to 2.43) | 0.52 | 1.56 (0.64 to 3.81) | 0.32 |
Appropriate versus inappropriate vitamin D, vitamin B12 and folate retesting were dependent variables, whereas age, gender, first test results and permissive and limiting strategies were predictors.