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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2012 Aug 25;45(5):841–847. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.04.003

Table 2.

Odds Ratios Between Patient Characteristics and EOL Discussions, Emotional Numbness, and Aggressive EOL Care (N=290)

EOL Discussions Emotional Numbness Aggressive EOL Care
Patient Characteristic OR P OR P OR P
Age in years 0.99 0.435 0.99 0.095 0.97 0.065
Gender, male 1.17 0.532 0.85 0.485 1.75 0.157
Race, White 1.02 0.943 1.21 0.441 0.37 0.011
Education in years 1.01 0.787 0.97 0.273 0.99 0.889
Marital Status, Married 0.97 0.902 0.91 0.703 1.63 0.218
Karnofsky score/10 0.71 <0.001 0.79 0.004 1.17 0.239

Missing observations: marital status (n=5), cancer type (n=5), Karnofsky score (n=4).

Karnofsky score/10 represents the Karnofsky performance status score divided by 10. Odds ratios for Karnofsky score/10 represent the change in the odds of the outcome per 10 unit change in Karnofsky score.