Social risks and social needs in a health insurance exchange sample: a longitudinal evaluation of utilization

Table 2 Social risk and healthcare utilization 6 months later

	Primary Care, Outpatient Visits			Specialty Care, Outpatient Visits			Urgent Care Visits			ER Visits
	RR	P-value	95% CI	RR	P-value	95% CI	RR	P-value	95% CI	RR	P-value	95% CI
Food insecurity	0.884	0.599	(0.559, 1.399)	0.642	0.182	(0.335, 1.231)	1.071	0.787	(0.652, 1.758)	0.978	0.962	(0.384, 2.489)
Housing insecurity	1.109	0.657	(0.702, 1.752)	1.361	0.353	(0.711, 2.608)	0.760	0.480	(0.355, 1.628)	2.691	0.011	(1.256, 5.763)
Housing condition	0.841	0.353	(0.585, 1.211)	1.254	0.365	(0.769, 2.044)	1.608	0.038	(1.027, 2.517)	1.367	0.436	(0.623, 2.996)
Transportation	1.057	0.807	(0.675, 1.657)	1.152	0.766	(0.455, 2.919)	0.440	0.103	(0.164, 1.181)	0.775	0.676	(0.235, 2.56)
Utilities	0.943	0.838	(0.537, 1.656)	0.127	0.029	(0.02, 0.81)	0.522	0.176	(0.204, 1.338)	0.596	0.465	(0.149, 2.387)

Analyses adjusted for age, gender, cost-sharing reduction subsidy, neighborhood deprivation index, race/ethnicity and the value of the outcome in the 12 months before the survey. Statistically significant results were no longer significant after type I error correction

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