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Table 2 Predictive value of the patient’s IMSA item responses for GPs’ opinions about the potential benefits of assigning the patient a case manager (logistic models)

From: Identifying complex patients in family medicine for potential benefit from a case manager: a short questionnaire derived from the INTERMED Self-Assessment (IMSA) questionnaire

 

Single-variate

models

Multi-variate

models ¥

Multi-variate

models ¥

Final multi-variate

models £

Item

OR

95% [CI]

OR

95% [CI]

OR

95% [CI]

OR

95% [CI]

 

Q1

2.52

[1.79–3.56]

2.24

[1.52–3.29]

  

2.11

[1.46–3.04]

 

Q2

1.43

[1.12–1.84]

1.04

[0.74–1.47]

     

Q3

1.78

[1.43–2.21]

1.39

[1.02–1.90]

  

1.55

[1.23–1.96]

 

Q4

1.98

[1.34–1.92]

0.99

[0.59–1.66]

     

Q5

1.52

[1.20–1.93]

1.26

[0.86–1.85]

     

Q6

1.17

[0.94–1.46]

1.13

[0.79–1.60]

     

Q7

1.36

[1.05–1.77]

1.08

[0.75–1.53]

     

Q8

1.13

[0.89–1.43]

0.57

[0.36–0.90]

     

Q9

1.99

[1.61–2.47]

1.79

[1.39–2.30]

  

1.86

[1.48–2.35]

 

Q10

1.51

[0.96–2.39]

113

[0.61–2.12]

     

Q11

2.21

[1.49–3.30]

1.41

[0.83–2.42]

     

Q12

1.71

[1.18–2.47]

1.23

[0.74–2.03]

     

Q13

1.10

[0.62–1.97]

0.87

[0.44–1.73]

     

Q14

1.49

[1.06–2.09]

0.92

[0.60–1.41]

     

Q15

0.57

[0.17–1.85]

0.49

[0.13–1.85]

     

Q16

1.36

[0.80–2.32]

0.97

[0.51–1.87]

     

Q17

2.11

[1.23–3.61]

1.11

[0.61–2.05]

     

Q18

1.54

[0.86–2.77]

1.66

[0.68–4.06]

     

Q19

1.28

[0.97–1.68]

1.25

[0.85–1.8]

     

Q20

1.30

[0.81–2.10]

0.73

[0.38–1.40]

     

Age

1.04

[1.02–1.05]

  

1.02

[1.00–1.04]

   

Sex

0.60

[0.39–0.96]

  

0.65

[0.37–1.14]

   

Visit to GP*

1.14

[1.07–2.21]

  

1.05

[0.98–1.13]

   

Diseases**

1.16

[1.08–1.24]

  

1.03

[0.93–1.13]

   

Treatments**

1.34

[1.22–1.47]

  

1.18

[1.05–1.32]

   

Cost*

1.00

[1.00–1.00]

  

1.00

[1.00–1.00]

   

Visit to ER*

1.27

[1.05–1.54]

  

1.23

[0.99–1.52]

   

Hospitalization*

1.53

[0.90–2.61]

  

1.03

[0.56–1.88]

   
  1. * last 12 monts, number of /** Number of current diseases or treatments
  2. ¥ Sociodemographic and health-related variables were tested independently in a model including all the IMSA questionnaire items
  3. £ Forward stepwise regression