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Table 5 Determinants of acute and long-term care utilisation: end-of-life status and predisposing, enabling and need variables (logistic regression coefficients from Generalised Estimating Equations)

From: Utilization of acute and long-term care in the last year of life: comparison with survivors in a population-based study

	Acute care		Long-term care
Determinants	Medical specialist	Hospital care	Informal personal care	Professional home care	Institutional care
End of life	-0.109	0.141	0.656	0.781⁺	0.649*
*Predisposing variables*
Age per year	0.017***	0.007	0.001	0.079*	0.111***
Female sex	-0.183*	-0.234*	-0.296	-0.517	-0.765*
*Enabling variables*
Education (1–3)	0.147*	-0.064⁺	0.412⁺	0.567	0.397
Income (per €100)	0.002	0.02	0.006	-0.036	-0.167**
Partner	0.218**	0.210⁺	2.187***	-0.498	-0.48
Children nearby	-0.007	0.012	0.170**	0.185*	-0.04
Urbanicity (1–3)	0.198***	0.04	0.018	-0.420*	0.046
*Need variables*
Disability-related
Functional Limitations (0–9)	-0.02	0.008	0.259***	0.520***	0.287***
Disability (1–3)	0.350***	0.368***	0.397⁺	0.501*	-0.047
Performance (3–15)	0.02	0.060**	0.474***	0.102	0.249**
Disease-related
Number Chronic Diseases	0.425***	0.151***	0.101	0.317*	-0.088
Vision	0.126*	0.042	-0.119	0.054	0.101
Hearing	0.031	-0.012	-0.157	0.08	-0.003
Self-Rated Health	0.338***	0.204**	0.092	0.124	-0.109
Cognitive impairment (0–30)	0.034*	-0.001	0.003	0.012	-0.065⁺
Depressive symptoms (0–60)	-0.004	0.007	0.015	0.029	0.009
Model fit (Wald chi² (df = 17))	669.85	320.05	236.91	181.05	210.14

⁺ significant at p < 0.10, * significant at p < 0.05, ** significant at p < 0.01, *** significant at p < 0.001

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