A study of home deaths in Japan from 1951 to 2002

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Table 3 Adjusted Odds of dying at home compared to odds of dying in other settings and 95% confidence intervals for patient characteristics from multivariable logistic regression analysis for subjects dying of cancer, heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease from 1980–2002.

Variables	b*	Wald Chi-square statistics	P	Odds Ratios	95% Confidence Interval
Intercept	-2.263	562139.321	< 0.0001
Year of death
1980–1984				1
1985–1989	-0.488	46346.315	< 0.0001	0.614	0.611–0.617
1990–1994	-0.798	119217.658	< 0.0001	0.450	0.448–0.452
1995–1999	-1.095	209436.362	< 0.0001	0.334	0.333–0.336
2000–2002	-1.334	209958.211	< 0.0001	0.263	0.262–0.265
Age
Under 65				1
65–74	0.263	8926.060	< 0.0001	1.300	1.293–1.307
75–84	0.777	97556.695	< 0.0001	2.174	2.164–2.185
85 or over	1.262	225213.075	< 0.0001	3.534	3.515–3.552
Gender
Female				1
Male	0.075	2204.343	< 0.0001	1.078	1.074–1.081
Cause of death
Cancer				1
Cerebrovascular	1.285	351250.089	< 0.0001	3.616	3.600–3.631
Heart disease	1.461	476921.234	< 0.0001	4.309	4.291–4.327
-2log likelihood	10113580
Chi-square model (df = 10)	1467394.7
P	< 0.0001
Overall rate of correct classification	74.0%

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