Table 4.

Unadjusted odds ratios for hospital use during the past year among the total sample of homeless women and stratified by race/ethnicity and drug abuse/dependence

	Total		Race/ethnicity						Drug abuse/dependence
	N=974		African American		White		Latina		Yes		No
Characteristics	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Race/ethnicity
White	1.00	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1.00	–	1.00	–
African American	0.71	0.48, 1.03	–	–	–	–	–	–	0.38	0.23, 0.62**	0.92	0.51, 1.65
Latina	0.70	0.43, 1.14	–	–	–	–	–	–	0.44	0.21, 0.94*	0.76	0.37, 1.55
Other	0.57	0.33, 0.98*	–	–	–	–	–	–	1.01	0.51, 2.02	0.65	0.31, 1.35
Drug abuse/dependence, lifetime	1.58	1.20, 2.09*	1.03	.71, 1.50	2.53	1.27, 5.02	1.49	.69, 3.18	–	–	–	–

En dash variable not used in the model

^*p<0.05

^**p<0.001.