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Published in final edited form as: J Child Neurol. 2011 Sep 27;27(5):569–576. doi: 10.1177/0883073811420719

Table 2.

The Association Between Muscular Dystrophy and Measures of Health Care Experiences Among Children With Special Health Care Needs in the United States: Adjusted Odds Ratios

	Medical home	Usual source of care	Has personal doctor	No referral problem when needed	Receives family centered care	Received effective care coordination
Muscular dystrophy	0.69	1.26	0.44	1.01	0.73	0.77
Race/ethnicity
Black, non-Hispanic	0.71^a	0.65^a	0.60^a	1.23	0.58^a	0.94
Hispanic	0.62^a	0.79	0.59^a	0.73^a	0.55^a	0.74^a
Other	0.74^a	0.81	0.8	0.92	0.68^a	0.75^a
Female	1.07	0.99	1.19	1.28	1.12	1.07
Age group
6 to 11	0.84^a	0.9	1.18	0.94	0.87^a	0.82^a
12 to 17	0.76^a	0.72^a	1.08	0.82	0.76^a	0.75^a
2 parent, biological or adoptive	1.34^a	1.50^a	1.47^a	1.22^a	1.35^a	1.24^a
Family income >100% of federal poverty level	1.31^a	1.48^a	1.17	1.06	1.44^a	1.12
Household education above high school	1.05	1.45^a	1.76^a	0.80^a	1.19^a	0.79^a
Language other than-English spoken at home	0.52^a	0.39^a	0.69	0.63	0.50^a	0.93
Type of insurance
Public	0.83^a	1.04	0.93	0.80^a	0.88^a	0.81^a
Both private and public	0.66^a	0.9	0.81	0.72^a	0.81^a	0.68^a
Insured, type unknown	1.01	0.79	0.81	0.94	1.06	0.88
Uninsured	0.44^a	0.26^a	0.33^a	0.43^a	0.49^a	0.40^a

Note: The baseline is children with special health care needs without muscular dystrophy, being non-Hispanic white, male, aged 0 to 5 years, single parent household, household income below federal poverty level, household education is high school or below, English spoken at home, and private insurance.

P < .05.