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Table 2 Odds Ratios for dying at home vs dying at hospital for different tumor types

From: Socioeconomy as a prognostic factor for location of death in Swedish palliative cancer patients

  

aOR (95% CI)

Brain, n = 543

 Sex

Male

Ref

Female

1.28 (0.86–1.92)

 Age

Q1

Ref

Q4

0.83 (0.5–1.36)

 Marital

Married

Ref

Divorced

0.4 (0.23–0.7)a

Unmarried

0.42 (0.23–0.76)a

Widow

0.71 (0.31–1.62)

 Education

Low

Ref

Middle

1.24 (0.79–1.95)

High

1.22 (0.75–1.99)

 Income

Q1

Ref

Q4

1.08 (0.67–1.75)

Breast, n = 614

 Age

Q1

Ref

Q4

0.58 (0.33–1.04)

 Marital

Married

Ref

Divorced

0.81 (0.49–1.35)

Unmarried

0.44 (0.25–0.79)a

Widow

0.62 (0.34–1.12)

 Education

Low

Ref

Middle

1.28 (0.82–2.01)

High

1.29 (0.76–2.17)

 Income

Q1

Ref

Q4

0.71 (0.49–1.03)

Colorectal, n = 1913

 Sex

Male

Ref

Female

0.83 (0.68–1.02)

 Age

Q1

Ref

Q4

1.07 (0.81–1.42)

 Marital

Married

Ref

Divorced

0.75 (0.57–0.99)a

Unmarried

0.56 (0.4–0.78)a

Widow

0.66 (0.49–0.88)a

 Education

Low

Ref

Middle

0.87 (0.7–1.09)

High

0.92 (0.71–1.21)

 Income

Q1

Ref

Q4

1.16 (0.89–1.52)

Lung, n = 5000

 Sex

Male

Ref

Female

1.07 (0.93–1.24)

 Age

Q1

Ref

Q4

1.24 (1.01–1.52)

 Marital

Married

Ref

Divorced

0.69 (0.58–0.82)a

Unmarried

0.63 (0.5–0.81)a

Widow

0.66 (0.54–0.82)a

 Education

Low

Ref

Middle

1.02 (0.88–1.19)

High

1.07 (0.87–1.32)

 Income

Q1

Ref

Q4

1.16 (0.97–1.4)

Prostate, n = 798

 Age

Q1

Ref

Q4

1.36 (0.88–2.11)

 Marital

Married

Ref

Divorced

0.47 (0.29–0.76)a

Unmarried

0.66 (0.38–1.14)

Widow

0.56 (0.34–0.92)a

 Education

Low

Ref

Middle

0.94 (0.67–1.31)

High

0.92 (0.6–1.42)

 Income

Q1

Ref

Q4

1.1 (0.71–1.69)

  1. astatistically significant
  2. An Odds ratio greater than 1 implies a higher likelihood of home death and one less than 1 implies a higher likelihood of in hospital deaths