Table 3.
Multivariate regressions of mortality on insurance and hospital safety net status including interactions between insurance and safety net hospital status
Colorectal Cancer | Breast Cancer | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
1-year | 5-year | 1-year | 5-year | |
Medicaid | 0.159*** | 0.271*** | 0.010 | 0.081*** |
(0.028) | (0.037) | (0.013) | (0.027) | |
Uninsured | 0.067*** | 0.121*** | −0.006 | 0.073*** |
(0.017) | (0.026) | (0.012) | (0.026) | |
Safety Net Hospital | −0.002 | 0.010 | 0.010*** | −0.011 |
(0.023) | (0.025) | (0.002) | (0.011) | |
Medicaid*Safety Net | −0.077* | −0.225*** | −0.022 | 0.008 |
(0.044) | (0.050) | (0.018) | (0.030) | |
Uninsured*Safety Net | −0.001 | −0.031 | 0.003 | −0.095* |
(0.029) | (0.028) | (0.014) | (0.055) | |
Age 45–54 | 0.034*** | 0.057*** | 0.007 | 0.003 |
(0.010) | (0.018) | (0.005) | (0.013) | |
Age 55–64 | 0.046*** | 0.067*** | 0.006 | 0.016 |
(0.010) | (0.018) | (0.005) | (0.013) | |
Male | 0.031*** | 0.045*** | ||
(0.009) | (0.011) | |||
African American | −0.008 | 0.015 | 0.014** | 0.052*** |
(0.009) | (0.013) | (0.006) | (0.016) | |
Other | 0.017 | −0.006 | −0.002 | −0.003 |
(0.017) | (0.027) | (0.007) | (0.023) | |
Charlson = 1 | −0.009 | 0.006 | 0.001 | 0.043** |
(0.010) | (0.014) | (0.007) | (0.017) | |
Charlson = 2 | 0.046 | 0.078** | 0.068* | 0.194*** |
(0.029) | (0.031) | (0.036) | (0.059) | |
Charlson>/=3 | 0.033 | 0.019 | 0.006 | −0.042 |
(0.028) | (0.034) | (0.012) | (0.089) | |
Stage II | 0.008* | 0.076*** | 0.000 | 0.070*** |
(0.004) | (0.011) | (0.003) | (0.010) | |
Stage III | 0.044*** | 0.254*** | 0.031*** | 0.220*** |
(0.008) | (0.016) | (0.007) | (0.020) | |
Stage IV | 0.314*** | 0.749*** | 0.114*** | 0.539*** |
(0.017) | (0.015) | (0.028) | (0.049) | |
Stage Unknown | 0.106*** | 0.246*** | 0.029*** | 0.089*** |
(0.014) | (0.022) | (0.009) | (0.017) | |
Stage Missing | 0.093*** | 0.199*** | −0.002 | 0.174 |
(0.035) | (0.049) | (0.006) | (0.177) | |
Observations | 5,658 | 5,658 | 4,304 | 4,304 |
p<0.01
p<0.05
p<0.1
Notes: Cluster robust standard errors in parentheses; SNH = Safety net hospital; All regressions also include cancer specific hospital surgical volume measures and year dummies. Omitted insurance category is “private or military”; omitted age category, “<45”; omitted race category, “white”; omitted Charlson score, “0”; and omitted stage, “0–1.”