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Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 2012 Aug 25;162(2):409–14.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2012.07.022

Table III.

Barrier frequency and association with incomplete referral

Barrier	Number of subjects experiencing barrier (n = 341)	Percent with barrier experiencing incomplete referral	Unadjusted OR (CI) for incomplete referral for those with barrier	aOR (CI) for incomplete referral
Leaving work^*	160	21.3	0.85 (0.44-1.66)	0.87 (0.41-1.85)^†
Childcare	129	25.6	1.48 (0.87-2.51)	1.64 (0.91-3.00)^†
Transportation	109	20.2	0.89 (0.51-1.57)	0.84 (0.46-1.54)^†
Getting an appointment quickly	88	29.6	1.89 (1.07-3.34)^‡	1.91 (1.05-3.46)^†,^‡
Understanding providers	73	19.2	0.88 (0.46-1.69)	1.01 (0.51-2.01)^†
Communicating with office	73	28.8	1.71 (0.94-3.10)	1.73 (0.91-3.30)^†
Locating office	72	36.1	2.71 (1.52-4.84)^‡	2.70 (1.45-5.05)^†,^‡
Interpreters unavailable^§	22	31.8	1.85 (0.68-5.02)	2.07 (0.73-5.91)^∥
Inconvenient office hours	40	40.0	2.88 (1.43-5.80)^‡	2.92 (1.38-6.21)^†,^‡
Health insurance coverage	7	28.6	1.41 (0.27-7.44)	1.49 (0.27-8.31)^¶

Asked only if parent was “working a paid job” (n = 198).

^†

Adjusted for child age, sex, race/ethnicity, survey language, insurance status (public or private), parent nativity, and parental educational level.

^‡

Statistically significant.

^§

Asked only if parent “needed help communicating with doctors in English” (n = 158).

^¶

Adjusted for child age, sex, race/ethnicity, survey language, parent nativity, and parental educational level.

^∥

Adjusted for child age, sex, insurance status (public or private), and parent educational level.