Are patient falls in the hospital associated with lunar cycles? A retrospective observational study

BMC Nursing

Table 1 Associations between falls/1000 patient days, lunar cycle, days of the week & month

	df	F-value	P-value
Corrected model^a)	1503	0.989	0.560
Lunar day	29	0.973	0.509
Days of the week	6	0.545	0.773
Month	11	0.368	0.967
Day of the week & month	66	1.040	0.403
Lunar day & days of the week	174	1.077	0.283
Lunar day & month	318	1.046	0.345
Lunar day, days of the week & month	899	0.949	0.721

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