Table 5.
Adjusteda odds ratios of health care utilization of children in the chart review sample
| Age 2 and under Group | Age 6 Group | |||
|
Ever Refuse vs. Never Refuse |
Other significante variables |
Ever Refuse vs. Never Refuse |
Other significante variables | |
| Any prescription use of select medsb | 0.82 (0.47, 1.43) | HMO A, Up-to-date, With ear disorders or respiratory diagnoses. | * | * |
| Any Inpatient Useb | 0.73 (0.44, 1.20) | HMO A, With respiratory, skin disorder, or seizure diagnoses. | 0.80 (0.40, 1.58) | HMO A, With ear disorder or seizure diagnoses. |
| Any ER Useb | 0.81 (0.56, 1.15) | HMO A, Medicaid, With ear disorder, respiratory, skin disorder, or seizure diagnoses. | 0.99 (0.59, 1.68) | HMO A, Males, With ear disorder or respiratory diagnoses. |
| Total # of prescription use of specified med per person per enrollment dayd | 0.93 (0.80, 1.08) | Living in a white majority community, Up-to-date, With ear disorder, respiratory, skin disorder, or seizure diagnoses. | 0.96 (0.67, 1.40) | With ear disorder or respiratory diagnoses. |
| Total # of ER use per person per enrollment dayd | 0.80 (0.64, 0.997)# | HMO B, Males, Living in a non-white majority community, With ear disorder, respiratory, skin disorder, or seizure diagnoses. | 1.13 (0.77, 1.66) | HMO B, Not up-to-date, With ear disorder diagnoses. |
| Total # of inpatient days per personc | 0.22 (0.09, 0.53)# | HMO B, Not up-to-date, Without ear disorder diagnosis, With respiratory, skin disorder, and seizure diagnoses. | 0.9670 (0.26, 3.54) | With respiratory or seizure diagnoses. |
| Total # of outpatient visits per person per enrollment dayd | 0.88 (0.79, 0.98)# | Living in a white majority community, With ear disorder, respiratory, skin disorder, or seizure diagnoses. | 0.97 (0.66, 1.41) | With ear disorder or respiratory diagnoses. |
| Total # of well-child visits per person per enrollment dayd | 1.05 (0.98, 1.12) | HMO A, Without ear disorder diagnoses. | 0.97 (0.70, 1.35) | HMO A |
aadjusted for HMO, up-to-date immunization status, gender, Medicaid status, and select high use medical conditions.
bLogistic regression model was used.
cPoisson regression models with log transformation was used.
d General linear model with log transformation was used.
e P-value < 0.05.
*Due to majority of age-6 group children took antibiotics, asthma, or seizure medications, no adjusted odds ratios were calculated. 86 (93.48%) of 92 ever-refusers in the age 6 group versus 282 (77.90%) of 362 never-refusers took antibiotics, asthma, or seizure medications.
# P-value < .05