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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Policy. 2010 Aug 13;99(2):97–106. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.07.014

Table 2.

Association between hospital and physician volume and complication (n=7,950)

Covariates Hospital Surgeon

Low Medium High Low Medium High

Odds ratio (CI) Odds ratio (CI) Odds ratio (CI) Odds ratio (CI) Odds ratio (CI) Odds ratio (CI)

Ethnicity
African American 0.81 (0.69, 0.95) 1.39 (1.13,1.62) 1.15 (0.96,1.33) 1.01 (0.87, 1.14) 1.23 (1.09, 1.46) 0.98 (0.76,1.20)
Hispanic 0.99 (0.86, 1.13) 1.15 (0.92,1.39) 1.12 (0.90,1.34) 1.05 (0.92, 1.18) 1.01 (0.78, 1.24) 1.02 (0.75,1.29)
White (reference) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00

Age 1.05 (1.03, 1..07) 1.03 (1.01,1.04) 1.03 (1.02,1.05) 1.06 (1.04, 1.06) 1.02 (1.01, 1.04) 1.01 (0.99,1.03)

Income 0.99 (0.99, 0.99) 0.99 (0.99,0.99) 0.99 (0.99,0.99) 0.99 (0.99,0.99) 1.01 (1.0, 1.03) 1.01 (1.00, 1.03)

Married 0.94 (0.84, 1.05) 0.74 (0.66,0.89) 1.04 (0.90,1.18) 0.99 (0.89,1.08) 0.77 (0.62, 0.92) 0.93 (0.78,1.08)

TNM stage
 T2b –T2c 1.08 (0.98, 1.17) 1.04 (0.93,1.15) 0.98 (0.87,1.08) 1.12 (1.04, 1.20) 0.87 (0.74, 0.98) 1.06 (0.95,1.18)
 ≥ T3a 1.29 (1.15, 1.44) 0.81 (0.67,1.09) 0.91 (0.65,1.16) 1.26 (1.12, 1.40) 1.10 (0.76, 1.15) 0.77 (0.52,1.06)
 ≤ T2a (reference) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00

Geographic area
  Metro 0.76 (0.59, 1.13) 1.04 (0.67,1.54) 1.22 (0.83, 1.61) 0.86 (0.53, 1.21) 0.85 (0.58, 1.28) 1.38 (0.89,1.86)
  Urban 1.15 (0.76, 1.49) 1.12 (0.59,1.63) 1.43 (1.03, 1.84) 1.11 (0.86, 1.46) 1.06 (0.68, 1.50) 1.61 (0.89,1.11)
Rural (reference) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00

Charlson comorbidity
   1–2 1.29 (1.15, 1.45) 1.21 (1.03,1.39) 1.24 (1.08,1.39) 1.39 (1.27, 1.51) 1.11 (0.92, 1.30) 1.22 (1.01,1.42)
   >3 1.21 (0.95, 1.46) 1.22 (0.93,1.51) 1.26 (1.03,1.49) 1.35 (1.14, 1.55) 0.85 (0.51, 1.22) 1.46 (1.20,1.71)
(reference) 0 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00

CI=confidence interval;