Social and clinical determinants of preferences and their achievement at the end of life: prospective cohort study of older adults receiving palliative care in three countries

Table 5 Multivariate logistic regression: factors associated with a preference for home or inpatient hospice/palliative care unit

		Home as the most preferred			Home as the least preferred			Palliative care unit or inpatient hospice as the most preferred
		Odds ratio	CI _Lower	CI _Upper	Odds ratio	CI _Lower	CI _Upper	Odds ratio	CI _Lower	CI _Upper
Female		0.53	0.11	2.51	1.81	0.93	3.51	1.68	0.21	13.87
Age (base: 65–69)^a
	70–79	0.95	0.13	6.82	1.48	0.56	3.91	1.30	0.11	14.81
	80–96	0.77	0.49	1.23	1.71	0.66	4.47	1.79	0.40	8.05
Cancer		3.72 ^**	1.40	9.90
Non-cancer					4.29 ^*	1.23	15.00	2.39 ^*	1.14	5.03
Living with		2.19 ^**	1.33	3.62	1.02	0.32	3.23
Barthel total score		0.99 ^**	0.98	1.00	1.03	0.98	1.07	1.00	1.00	1.01
28-SOMCT total score								1.09 ^*	0.97	1.23
Constant		2.42 ^**	1.86	3.13	0.01 ^*	<0.00	0.52	0.02 ^**	<0.00	0.25
N			113			102			107
Log likelihood			−67.16			−45.71			−54.92

^** p < 0.01 and ^* p < 0.05. Standard errors are adjusted for 3 clusters in Site. Site level fixed effects model was estimated
^aJoint test for age categories was: Χ ² = 3.18 (df = 2), p < 0.2.43; Χ ² = 1.21 (df = 2), p < 0.5471; Χ ² = 5.89 (df = 2), p < 0.0527

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