Table 4.

Adjusted Hazard Ratios and 95% Confidence Limits for Time to Resolution by Participant Characteristics, Pathfinders-San Francisco Bay Area, 1999–2001

	BIRADS 3: Probably benign			BIRADS 4: Suspicious, or BIRADS 5: probably malignant			BIRADS 0: Indeterminatea
	n=451			n=250			n=115
Variable (Reference)	HR	95% HR CL	p	HR	95% HR CL	p	HR	95% HR CL	p
Race/ethnicity (White)
Asian	1.25	0.91-1.72	0.17	1.03	0.66-1.58	0.91	1.33	0.68-2.60	0.40
African American	1.17	0.90-1.53	0.23	0.69	0.49-0.97	0.03	0.55	0.28-1.09	0.09
Latino	1.46	1.09-1.96	0.01	1.03	0.64-1.67	0.90	0.78	0.39-1.55	0.47
Income (>$50,000)
<$10,000	0.77	0.51-1.17	0.22	0.55	0.31-0.98	0.04	1.15	0.55-2.40	0.71
$10,000–$50,000	0.82	0.66-1.04	0.10	1.17	0.88-1.57	0.28	0.54	0.31-0.96	0.04
Insurance: Integrated health care system/private
Medicare/MediCal/None	0.67	0.44-1.02	0.06	1.81	0.95-3.46	0.07	0.65	0.36-1.17	0.15
Understanding results (Fully understood)
Did not understand/explain/did not know	1.12	0.85-1.46	0.42	0.96	0.60-1.53	0.85	0.42	0.17-1.06	0.07
Somewhat understood	1.19	0.90-1.57	0.22	0.49	0.32-0.75	0.001	0.63	0.33-1.23	0.17
Discrimination (No)
Yes	1.24	0.76-2.02	0.38	0.22	0.09-0.52	<0.001	1.55	0.73-3.31	0.26
Method notified (Told in person)
Sent letter or card	0.91	0.65-1.26	0.56	0.62	0.42-0.92	0.02	1.09	0.60-2.00	0.77
Told by telephone	1.03	0.72-1.46	0.88	0.66	0.48-0.90	0.01	1.04	0.56-1.94	0.89
Consulted with PCP
Yes	1.18	0.96-1.46	0.13	1.32	0.99-1.76	0.06	0.94	0.54-1.64	0.82

^aAll hazard ratios (HR) are adjusted for age, education, race/ethnicity, household income, insurance type, understanding of results, perceived discrimination, method of communication, and consultation with primary care physician. For BIRADS 0 analysis, group model health maintenance organization (HMO) was combined as reference with private insurance.

CL, confidence limits; PCP, primary care physician.