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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Womens Health Issues. 2008;18(3):199–209. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.02.008

Table 2.

Proportion of Decedents with Any Service Use, by Type of Service, Age at Death, and Gender

Age at Death
Gender
Service Type All Ages (%) (n=6,657) 68−74 (%) (n=5,431) 75−84 (%) (n=6,211) 85+ (%) (n=1,478) p-value Women (%) (n=5,594) Men (%) (n=7,526) p-value
Inpatient 85.4 86.7 85.2 81.7 <.001 85.8 85.1 0.275
Outpatient 92.8 94.2 92.8 87.8 <.001 92.6 93.0 0.382
Physician 99.3 99.5 99.2 99.1 0.148 99.5 99.1 0.005
SNF 25.2 21.2 27.2 31.8 <.001 28.2 23.1 <.001
Home 45.0 43.9 46.1 44.5 0.043 49.8 41.5 <.001
Health
Hospice 50.5 48.8 51.2 53.6 0.001 53.0 48.6 <.001