Differences in health services use in the three years before death among participants of the Nova Scotia Nutrition Survey
| Family physician services | Specialist services | Days in hospital | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income | N | OR | 95% CI | N | OR | 95% CI | N | OR | 95% CI |
| N, Median number of annual family physician services, specialist services or days of hospitalisation; OR, odds ratio adjusted for age and gender differences; 95% CI, 95% confidence intervals of odds ratio. | |||||||||
| <$20000 | 13.57 | reference | 5.90 | reference | 7.76 | reference | |||
| $20000–$40000 | 16.64 | 1.12 | 0.54 to 2.31 | 7.18 | 1.07 | 0.52 to 2.22 | 12.44 | 1.20 | 0.58 to 2.49 |
| >$40000 | 15.38 | 0.36 | 0.11 to 1.14 | 20.10 | 4.67 | 1.35 to 16.22 | 11.83 | 1.27 | 0.43 to 2.00 |