Fig. 6: Association between ethnicity and health service use in the final three months of life. | British Journal of Cancer

Fig. 6: Association between ethnicity and health service use in the final three months of life.

From: Ethnic disparities in opioid prescribing for cancer pain and associated emergency department visits and hospital admissions in the last three months of life: a retrospective cohort study

Fig. 6

a Adjusted rate ratios (aRRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs), including lower (LL) and upper limits (UL), for the association between patient ethnicity and multiple hospital admissions. b Adjusted rate ratios (aRRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs), including lower (LL) and upper limits (UL), for the association between patient ethnicity and multiple emergency department visits in the final three months of life. Patients from the White ethnic group are the comparison group. An aRR value > 1 indicates a higher rate of service use than the comparison category. Models were adjusted for patients’ sociodemographic characteristics, including age, cancer type, Practice-Level urban-rural classification, year of prescription issue, practice-level Index for Multiple Deprivation (IMD), practice region, palliative care need and number of comorbidities.

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