Table 3.
Risk Ratios and 95% Confidence Intervals from Quasi-Poisson Models for Receipt of Pain Care via Telehealth (Telephone and Video Encounters) by Race and Ethnicity Separately
| Predictors | Pre-COVID | COVID-era | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unadjusted model 1 | Model 2: rurality included | Model 3: rurality, age, gender included | Unadjusted model 1 | Model 2: rurality included | Model 3: rurality, age, gender included | |
| Estimate (95% CI) | Estimate (95% CI) | Estimate (95% CI) | Estimate (95% CI) | Estimate (95% CI) | Estimate (95% CI) | |
| Race | ||||||
| White | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref |
| Black | 0.73 (0.70, 0.76) | 0.71 (0.69, 0.74) | 0.64 (0.62, 0.67) | 0.89 (0.87, 0.91) | 0.84 (0.82, 0.86) | 0.75 (0.73, 0.77) |
| Asian | 0.64 (0.54, 0.76) | 0.66 (0.55, 0.78) | 0.63 (0.54, 0.75) | 0.87 (0.80, 0.96) | 0.87 (0.79, 0.95) | 0.81 (0.74, 0.89) |
| NHOPI* | 0.71 (0.60, 0.84) | 0.74 (0.62, 0.87) | 0.71 (0.60, 0.83) | 1.07 (0.98, 1.17) | 1.03 (0.94, 1.12) | 0.97 (0.88, 1.06) |
| AI/AN† | 1.03 (0.89, 1.19) | 1.03 (0.89, 1.20) | 0.98 (0.85, 1.13) | 0.91 (0.83, 1.01) | 0.93 (0.84, 1.03) | 0.87 (0.79, 0.96) |
| 2 + races | 0.93 (0.81, 1.08) | 0.93 (0.80, 1.07) | 0.89 (0.78, 1.03) | 1.03 (0.95, 1.13) | 1.00 (0.92, 1.10) | 0.94 (0.86, 1.03) |
| Ethnicity | ||||||
| Non-Hispanic/Latinx | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref | Ref |
| Hispanic/Latinx | 0.71 (0.67, 0.76) | 0.70 (0.66, 0.76) | 0.70 (0.66, 0.75) | 1.12 (1.08, 1.16) | 1.07 (1.03, 1.11) | 1.06 (1.02, 1.09) |
*NHOPI Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
†AI/AN American Indian or Alaska Native