Table 4.

Percentage of patients who experienced some type of discrimination by public and private in-patient care

Reason for discrimination	Total	Public	Private	OR (95% CI)
Sex	2.2	2.8	0.3
Age	3.1	3.9	0.3
Lack of money	8.2	10.4	1.5
Social class	6.8	8.6	1.7
Race	7.0	8.3	3.2
Type of illness	4.4	5.6	0.6
Nationality	2.1	2.3	1.6
Total (Mean, range 0–7)	0.35	0.43	0.11	Private = 1.00 Public = 1.80 (1.17–2.76)**