Table 3.
Use of Emergency Care and Hospital Care (unplanned admissions) among Primary Care users and non-users (incidence rate ratios, IRR). Results of standard or zero-inflated negative binomial regression models¶ across immigrant groups
| Use of Emergency Care | Use of Hospital Care | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PC users | PC non-users | PC users | PC non-users | |||||
| Mean No. of visits/10 ind. | IRR | Mean No. of visits/10 ind. | IRR | Mean No. of unplanned admissions/100 ind. | IRR | Mean No. of unplanned admissions/100 ind. | IRR | |
| Nationals | 3.13 | (ref) | 1.10 | (ref) | 4.60 | (ref) | 2.70 | (ref) |
| Immigrants | 3.28 | 1.20† | 0.58 | 0.91† | 4.02 | 1.15† | 0.70 | 0.61† |
| Africa | 3.72 | 1.08† | 0.63 | 0.88* | 4.10 | 1.25† | 0.70 | 0.58† |
| Asia | 3.44 | 1.36† | 0.58 | 1.52† | 3.73 | 1.47† | 0.78 | 0.59 |
| Eastern Europe | 3.07 | 1.22† | 0.64 | 0.88† | 4.35 | 1.13† | 0.74 | 0.57† |
| Latin America | 3.32 | 1.32† | 0.79 | 1.04 | 3.77 | 1.05 | 0.72 | 0.82 |
| Western Europe & North America | 2.76 | 0.94* | 0.29 | 0.37† | 4.14 | 1.12 | 0.61 | 0.26† |
PC Primary Care; Ind. Individuals
All means are standardised by age and sex. Models adjusted by age, sex, and morbidity burden
¶In those cases where the Vuong test was statistically non-significant showing large negative values, standard negative binomial models were employed, *p < 0.05, † p < 0.001