Table 2.
Resource use six -months post cancer diagnosis with means and standard deviations reported only for patients diagnosed in prison and the general population with a hospital attendance.
| General population |
Prison |
ORb (95% CI) | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 4326 | n = 879 | |||
| Outpatient | ||||
| Proportion (%) | 93.39 | 82.25 | 0.31 (0.25–0.39) | P < 0.0001 |
| Attendancesa (mean (SD)) | 11.97 (11.90) | 8.86 (10.96) | ||
| Elective (planned) inpatient care | ||||
| Proportion (%) | 35.99 | 29.82 | 0.75 (0.64–0.88) | P < 0.0001 |
| Attendancesa (mean (SD)) | 1.38 (0.93) | 1.41 (1.02) | ||
| Bed Daysa (mean (SD)) | 8.25 (10.78) | 8.61 (11.08) | ||
| Day cases | ||||
| Proportion (%) | 45.28 | 36.86 | 0.69 (0.60–0.81) | P < 0.0001 |
| Attendancesa (mean (SD)) | 4.51 (5.55) | 3.63 (4.15) | ||
| Emergency inpatient care | ||||
| Proportion (%) | 16.10 | 14.79 | 0.90 (0.73–1.11) | P = 0.335 |
| Attendancesa (mean (SD)) | 1.32 (0.68) | 1.32 (0.72) | ||
| Bed Daysa (mean (SD)) | 13.92 (19.03) | 17.22 (21.77) | ||
| Any inpatient care | ||||
| Proportion (%) | 69.05 | 60.18 | 0.68 (0.58–0.79) | P < 0.0001 |
| Attendancesa (mean (SD)) | 3.99 (5.12) | 3.25 (3.76) | ||
| Bed Daysa (mean (SD)) | 10.49 (15.19) | 10.73 (15.38) |
a
Participants with attendance recorded only.
b
Conditional logistic regression model adjusted for age groups, gender, year of diagnosis, and disease stage.