Comparing unplanned and potentially planned home deaths: a population-based cross-sectional study

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Table 2 Adjusted relative risk ratio (RRR) for death at home versus nursing home, and home versus hospital^a

	Home versus nursing home^a			Home versus hospital^a
	Adjusted RRR	CI	p	Adjusted RRR	CI	p
Sex
Female	0.67	0.64, 0.71	< 0.001	0.97	0.93, 1.02	0.223
Male	Ref.			Ref.
Age
0–39	49.76	38.34, 64.58	< 0.001	2.21	1.94, 2.51	< 0.001
40–49	19.77	16.55, 23.61	< 0.001	2.61	2.31, 2.96	< 0.001
50–59	11.71	10.55, 12.99	< 0.001	2.38	2.18, 2.60	< 0.001
60–69	7.20	6.68, 7.75	< 0.001	1.91	1.78, 2.04	< 0.001
70–79	2.71	2.55, 2.89	< 0.001	1.32	1.24, 1.41	< 0.001
80–89	Ref.			Ref.
90+	0.55	0.52, 0.59	< 0.001	1.11	1.03, 1.19	0.006
Cause of death
Infectious and parasitic diseases	0.95	0.88, 1.04	0.267	1.03	0.95, 1.12	0.461
Cancer	0.22	0.21, 0.24	< 0.001	0.48	0.45, 0.51	< 0.001
Dementia	0.23	0.20, 0.26	< 0.001	3.18	2.64, 3.82	< 0.001
Circulatory	Ref.			Ref.
Respiratory	0.51	0.47, 0.56	< 0.001	0.60	0.55, 0.65	< 0.001
Symptoms/signs/ill-defined	3.84	3.29, 4.48	< 0.001	32.21	23.22, 44.71	< 0.001
External causes	1.92	1.66, 2.21	< 0.001	1.55	1.38, 1.74	< 0.001
Other	0.58	0.54, 0.63	< 0.001	0.76	0.71, 0.82	< 0.001
Municipality population
0–2000	1.11	0.97, 1.28	0.135	1.67	1.45, 1.93	< 0.001
2001–5000	1.13	1.03, 1.24	0008	1.73	1.58, 1.93	< 0.001
5001–10,000	1.11	1.02, 1.20	0.014	1.54	1.42, 1.66	< 0.001
10,001–50,000	1.06	1.00, 1.13	0.033	1.30	1.23, 1.37	< 0.001
50,001-	Ref.			Ref.
Municipality centrality
Least central	0.95	0.87, 1.03	0.227	0.94	0.86, 1.03	0.198
Less central	1.07	0.97, 1 17	0.190	0.90	0.82, 0.99	0.024
Somewhat central	1.02	0.96, 1.09	0.465	1.01	0.95, 1.07	0.839
Central	Ref.			Ref.
Domiciliary care
Yes	2.70	2.58, 2.83	< 0.001	1.35	1.29, 1.42	< 0.001
No	Ref.			Ref.

^aMultinomial logistic regression with place of death as dependent variable. Number of observations 78,226

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