Table 3.
Factors Associated with Preferences on Place of Death, Actual Place of Death, and Congruence, Logit Results.
| 3a. Preference for home death versus institutional death (base = formal) | 3b. Home death versus hospital death (base = hospital death) | 3c. Congruence between preferred and actual place of death (base = not congruent) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odds ratio | P > z | [95% conf. interval] | Odds ratio | P > z | [95% conf. interval] | Odds ratio | P > z | [95% conf. interval] | ||||
| Patient age | 1 . 042 | 0.000 | 1.037 | 1.048 | 1.011 | 0.203 | 0.994 | 1.028 | 0.967 | 0.017 | 0.941 | 0.994 |
| Women (base: men) | 0.759 | 0.001 | 0.646 | 0.892 | 1.317 | 0.110 | 0.940 | 1.845 | 1.347 | 0.000 | 1.262 | 1.437 |
| Number of informal carers (base: no informal carer) | ||||||||||||
| 1 informal carer | 0.739 | 0.403 | 0.363 | 1.502 | 2.328 | 0.003 | 1.326 | 4.088 | 1.294 | 0.161 | 0.902 | 1.855 |
| 2/more informal carers | 0.883 | 0.106 | 0.758 | 1.027 | 2.556 | 0.000 | 2.099 | 3.113 | 1.238 | 0.194 | 0.897 | 1.709 |
| Living alone (base: not living alone) | 0.389 | 0.041 | 0.157 | 0.961 | 0.383 | 0.000 | 0.274 | 0.536 | 1.107 | 0.554 | 0.791 | 1.547 |
| Female carer (base: male carer) | 0.901 | 0.530 | 0.651 | 1.248 | ||||||||
| Carer age | 0.982 | 0.303 | 0.948 | 1.017 | 0.985 | 0.001 | 0.976 | 0.994 | 1.005 | 0.613 | 0.987 | 1.023 |
| Main diagnosis cancer | 0.735 | 0.482 | 0.312 | 1.733 | 3.052 | 0.001 | 1.540 | 6.049 | 1.621 | 0.000 | 1.395 | 1.883 |
| Mobility at 3 months (base: no problems) | ||||||||||||
| Some/Lots of problems | 0.816 | 0.370 | 0.523 | 1.273 | 0.513 | 0.451 | 0.090 | 2.917 | 0.636 | 0.517 | 0.161 | 2.503 |
| Pain at 3 months (base: no pain) | ||||||||||||
| Some/lots of pain | 1.079 | 0.728 | 0.703 | 1.657 | 1.674 | 0.484 | 0.395 | 7.096 | 0.990 | 0.987 | 0.321 | 3.058 |
| Anxiety at 3 months (base: no anxiety) | ||||||||||||
| Some/lots of anxiety | 1.166 | 0.336 | 0.853 | 1.596 | ||||||||
| Healthcare utilisation last 3 months | ||||||||||||
| Inpatient – one/more nights | 0.472 | 0.000 | 0.393 | 0.567 | 0.164 | 0.000 | 0.146 | 0.186 | 0.494 | 0.000 | 0.431 | 0.566 |
| Hospice – one/more nights | 0.181 | 0.202 | 0.013 | 2.505 | 65.582 | 0.181 | 0.142 | 30 294 | 0.906 | 0.876 | 0.262 | 3.133 |
| Nursing home – one/more nights | 0.306 | 0.000 | 0.172 | 0.545 | 0.951 | 0.921 | 0.347 | 2.607 | 0.774 | 0.678 | 0.231 | 2.597 |
| Homecare – one/more hours per week | 1.425 | 0.120 | 0.911 | 2.229 | 1.508 | 0.022 | 1.062 | 2.141 | 1.559 | 0.000 | 1.293 | 1.879 |
| Site (base: Mid-West) | ||||||||||||
| Dublin | 0.332 | 0.277 | 0.045 | 2.430 | 0.018 | 0.000 | 0.004 | 0.080 | 0.257 | 0.000 | 0.200 | 0.332 |
| South-East | 0.614 | 0.502 | 0.148 | 2.550 | 0.164 | 0.000 | 0.107 | 0.253 | 0.999 | 0.998 | 0.648 | 1.542 |
| Midlands | 0.802 | 0.809 | 0.135 | 4.785 | 0.584 | 0.000 | 0.533 | 0.639 | 2.027 | 0.006 | 1.229 | 3.342 |
| Number of obs | 347 (274 pref home; 73 pref institution) | 342 (141 died at home; 201 died in hosp) | 351 (196 congruent; 155 not congruent) | |||||||||
| Log likelihood | −156.570 | −141.841 | −198.539 | |||||||||
| Pseudo R2 | 0.123 | 0.388 | 0.176 | |||||||||
Source: EEPCI and IARE I merged dataset.
Significant at 5% level are presented in boldface.