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Table 3 The association of age, gender, and year of death with costs of LTC among users, Cox proportion hazard analyses

From: Trends in the use and costs of round-the-clock long-term care in the last two years of life among old people between 2002 and 2013 in Finland

 

LTC in total

Health center

Residential home

Sheltered housing

N

196,461

69,958

96,722

71,404

 

iHR (95% CIs)

iHR (95% CIs)

iHR (95% CIs)

iHR (95% CIs)

Age

1.01 *** (1.01, 1.01)

1.01 *** (1.01, 1.01)

1.02 *** (1.02, 1.02)

1.02 *** (1.02, 1.02)

Man (ref. woman)

1.26 *** (1.25, 1.27)

1.17 *** (1.15, 1.19)

1.29 *** (1.27, 1.31)

1.25 *** (1.23, 1.27)

Year of death (ref. 2002)

 2003

0.97 ** (0.95, 0.99)

0.97 (0.94, 1.01)

0.99 (0.96, 1.02)

0.99 (0.94, 1.04)

 2004

0.97 ** (0.95, 0.99)

0.98 (0.94, 1.01)

1.00 (0.97, 1.03)

1.04 (0.99, 1.09)

 2005

0.95 *** (0.93, 0.98)

0.96 * (0.92, 0.99)

1.00 (0.97, 1.03)

1.04 (0.99, 1.09)

 2006

0.96 *** (0.94, 0.98)

0.95 ** (0.92, 0.99)

1.02 (0.99, 1.05)

1.05 (1.00, 1.10)

 2007

0.93 *** (0.91, 0.95)

0.94 *** (0.91, 0.98)

0.99 (0.96, 1.02)

1.04 (0.99, 1.09)

 2008

0.93 *** (0.91, 0.95)

0.94 *** (0.91, 0.97)

1.01 (0.98, 1.05)

1.06 ** (1.02, 1.11)

 2009

0.91 *** (0.89, 0.93)

0.93 *** (0.90, 0.96)

1.05 ** (1.02, 1.08)

1.06 * (1.01, 1.11)

 2010

0.87 *** (0.85, 0.89)

0.87 *** (0.84, 0.90)

1.02 (0.99, 1.05)

1.07 *** (1.03, 1.12)

 2011

0.82 *** (0.81, 0.84)

0.83 *** (0.80, 0.86)

1.02 (0.99, 1.05)

1.12 *** (1.07, 1.17)

 2012

0.79 *** (0.77, 0.81)

0.77 *** (0.75, 0.80)

1.04 ** (1.01, 1.08)

1.20 *** (1.15, 1.26)

 2013

0.73 *** (0.71, 0.74)

0.71 *** (0.68, 0.74)

0.99 (0.96, 1.02)

1.28 *** (1.23, 1.33)

  1. *p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001
  2. LTC long-term care, iHR inverse of hazard ratio, CI confidence interval