Hazard ratios for all cause mortality among patients discharged from a hospital for an alcohol related diagnosis, by type of diagnosis and socioeconomic group*
| Discharge diagnosis | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SES | Alcoholic disease of liver or pancreas | Alcohol dependence or alcohol psychoses | Intoxication | |||
| *In the model, age, language, marital status, family type, hospital type, length of stay, and a dummy variable for the type of diagnosis have been adjusted for, all as categorical variables. †Calculated for the first four categories of SES. | ||||||
| Men | ||||||
| Number of deaths | 2738 | 5917 | 2111 | |||
| Upper white collar | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | |||
| Lower white collar | 1.09 | (0.93 to 1.28) | 0.98 | (0.86 to 1.12) | 1.00 | (0.80 to1.26) |
| Specialised manual | 1.09 | (0.94 to 1.26) | 0.96 | (0.85 to 1.08) | 0.97 | (0.80 to 1.18) |
| Unspecialised manual | 1.09 | (0.93 to 1.27) | 1.00 | (0.89 to 1.13) | 1.00 | (0.82 to 1.22) |
| Farmer | 1.21 | (0.99 to 1.48) | 0.95 | (0.82 to 1.10) | 0.90 | (0.70 to 1.15) |
| Other | 1.19 | (1.01 to 1.39) | 1.03 | (0.91 to 1.16) | 0.98 | (0.80 to 1.21) |
| (p for trend when <0.1)† | – | – | – | |||
| Women | ||||||
| Number of deaths | 630 | 803 | 345 | |||
| Upper white collar | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | |||
| Lower white collar | 0.97 | (0.71 to 1.33) | 0.82 | (0.62 to 1.09) | 1.14 | (0.70 to 1.88) |
| Specialised manual | 0.90 | (0.64 to 1.27) | 0.95 | (0.71 to 1.28) | 1.57 | (0.95 to 2.60) |
| Unspecialised manual | 0.95 | (0.68 to 1.33) | 0.76 | (0.56 to 1.01) | 1.07 | (0.64 to 1.77) |
| Farmer | 1.27 | (0.80 to 2.02) | 1.03 | (0.68 to 1.56) | 1.24 | (0.63 to 2.45) |
| Other | 1.16 | (0.83 to 1.63) | 0.99 | (0.74 to 1.33) | 1.41 | (0.85 to 2.34) |
| (p for trend when <0.1)† | – | – | – | |||