Table 4. Negative binomial models with number of hospital admissions as the outcomes.
| Model A: total number of admissions | Model B: emergency admissions | Model C: planned admissions | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | IRR | 95% CI | P-value | IRR | 95% CI | P-value | IRR | 95% CI | P-value | |||
|
Age at Diagnosis (years) |
0.97 |
0.95 |
1.00 |
0.019 |
0.98 |
0.96 |
1.01 |
0.170 |
0.97 |
0.94 |
0.99 |
0.020 |
|
ICCC | ||||||||||||
| Leukaemia | REF | REF | REF | |||||||||
| Lymphoma | 0.79 | 0.49 | 1.28 | 0.342 | 0.95 | 0.58 | 1.56 | 0.827 | 0.71 | 0.41 | 1.24 | 0.235 |
| CNS | 0.41 | 0.28 | 0.61 | <0.001 | 0.56 | 0.37 | 0.84 | 0.005 | 0.33 | 0.21 | 0.52 | <0.001 |
| Other solid tumours |
0.84 |
0.60 |
1.18 |
0.323 |
0.85 |
0.60 |
1.22 |
0.391 |
0.85 |
0.57 |
1.27 |
0.424 |
|
Gender | ||||||||||||
| Male | REF | REF | REF | |||||||||
| Female |
0.93 |
0.73 |
1.20 |
0.595 |
0.98 |
0.75 |
1.27 |
0.858 |
0.90 |
0.67 |
1.22 |
0.510 |
|
Referred to SPPCS | ||||||||||||
| No | REF | REF | REF | |||||||||
| Yes |
0.79 |
0.59 |
1.05 |
0.106 |
1.15 |
0.84 |
1.58 |
0.375 |
0.60 |
0.43 |
0.85 |
0.004 |
|
Deprivation category | ||||||||||||
| 1 (least deprived) | REF | REF | REF | |||||||||
| 2 | 0.80 | 0.54 | 1.20 | 0.278 | 0.87 | 0.57 | 1.32 | 0.508 | 0.78 | 0.49 | 1.24 | 0.295 |
| 3 | 0.74 | 0.50 | 1.10 | 0.132 | 0.82 | 0.54 | 1.24 | 0.340 | 0.69 | 0.44 | 1.09 | 0.116 |
| 4 | 0.98 | 0.67 | 1.44 | 0.925 | 1.12 | 0.74 | 1.68 | 0.601 | 0.89 | 0.57 | 1.40 | 0.627 |
| 5 (most deprived) |
1.02 |
0.71 |
1.46 |
0.913 |
1.37 |
0.94 |
1.99 |
0.105 |
0.89 |
0.59 |
1.35 |
0.582 |
| Year of diagnosis | 1.09 | 1.06 | 1.12 | <0.001 | 1.10 | 1.06 | 1.13 | <0.001 | 1.09 | 1.06 | 1.13 | <0.001 |
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; CNS=central nervous system; ICCC=International Classification of Childhood Cancer; IRR=incidence rate ratio; REF=reference category; SPPCS=Specialist Paediatric Palliative Care Service.