Dementia as a determinant of social and health service use in the last two years of life 1996-2003

BMC Geriatrics

Table 3 Days in care during last two years of life among those who used services.

	Hospital								Long-term care
			University hospital		General hospital		Health centre
N	117 974		38 123		79 135		70 595		74 797
	β	p	β	p	β	p	β	p	β	p
Age	-0.009	<.001	-0.036	<.001	-0.019	<.001	0.009	<.001	0.015	<.001
Gender (0 = man, 1 = woman)	-0.007	0.384	0.024	0.094	-0.094	<.001	0.090	<.001	0.155	<.001
Dementia (0 = no, 1 = yes)	0.123	<.001	0.144	0.030	0.209	<.001	0.229	<.001	0.231	<.001
Year of death	-0.017	<.001	-0.004	0.205	-0.027	<.001	0.003	0.045	0.006	0.001
Interaction: Dementia * Year of death	-0.075	0.002	-0.308	<.001	-0.086	0.121	-0.041	0.003	0.016	0.067
Diagnoses (0 = no, 1 = yes)
Cancer	0.283	<.001	0.265	<.001	0.191	<.001	0.124	<.001	-0.237	<.001
Diabetes	0.094	<.001	0.021	0.257	0.055	0.002	0.115	<.001	-0.028	<.001
Mental other than d	0.230	<.001	0.215	<.001	0.318	<.001	0.158	<.001	0.010	0.236
Neurological other than d	0.098	<.001	0.007	0.758	0.075	0.002	0.126	<.001	0.019	0.008
Respiratory	0.177	<.001	0.201	<.001	0.175	<.001	0.115	<.001	0.005	0.313
Arthritis	0.185	<.001	0.128	<.001	0.207	<.001	0.146	<.001	-0.113	<.001
Hip fracture	0.077	<.001	0.025	0.302	-0.004	0.861	0.207	<.001	-0.061	<.001
Stroke	-0.001	0.916	-0.124	<.001	-0.048	0.009	0.076	<.001	0.041	<.001
Heart disease	0.032	<.001	0.007	0.668	0.015	0.376	0.011	0.076	-0.133	<.001
Other circulatory	0.091	<.001	0.083	<.001	0.064	<.001	0.068	<.001	-0.105	<.001
Model statistics
Alpha	0.923		0.983		1.145		0.703		0.769
Log pseudo likelihood	-555016		-145652		-334300		-310208		-523140

Negative binomial regression models. Statistically significant (p < .05) coefficients (β) are in bold face.

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