Table 2.
Hazard ratios (HR) of waitlisting before policy change, after policy change (in 2001), and for the pre-/post-difference in waitlisting, by age/disability status and year
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Secular trend |
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| Model | Group | Period | HR | 95% CI | P-value | P#b | HR | 95% CI | P-value |
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Full ITSaModel |
<65/non-disabled |
before policy change |
1.00 |
0.97-1.02 |
0.681 |
0.364 |
0.91 |
0.83-1.00 |
0.063 |
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after policy change |
1.02 |
0.98-1.06 |
0.418 |
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≥65/disabled |
before policy change |
1.05 |
1.02-1.08 |
<0.001 |
0.515 |
0.94 |
0.85-1.04 |
0.220 |
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after policy change |
1.03 |
0.99-1.08 |
0.123 |
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Intermediate Model |
<65/non-disabled |
overall |
1.00 |
0.98-1.02 |
0.989 |
- |
0.93 |
0.85-1.01 |
0.099 |
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≥65/disabled |
overall |
1.04 |
1.02-1.07 |
<0.001 |
- |
0.93 |
0.84-1.02 |
0.135 |
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Final Model |
<65/non-disabled |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
0.93 |
0.89-0.97 |
0.002 |
| ≥65/disabled | overall | 1.04 | 1.02-1.07 | <0.001 | - | 0.93 | 0.84-1.02 | 0.135 | |
aITS = interrupted time series.
bP# = P-value for the equality of the within-group trends before and after policy change.