Table 4.

Multiple regression studying patient-level associations with overall quality of supportive cancer care quality and by domain

Patient Characteristics	Overall Quality		Pain Quality		Information and Care Planning Quality		Non-Pain Symptoms Quality
	Coef.	P	Coef.	P	Coef.	P	Coef.	P
Timing of first palliative care consult	.066***	0.000	.043	0.179	.114****	0.000	.053	0.118
Age at diagnosis
< 60 years	−.007	0.593	.018	0.418	.005	0.819	−.040	0.086
60–75 years †
> 75 years	.002	0.866	−.017	0.449	−.000	0.994	.027	0.271
Gender
Male	.002	0.943	.058	0.282	.001	0.992	−.028	0.629
Female †
Race/Ethnicity
White (Non-Hispanic) †
Black (Non-Hispanic)	−.004	0.736	−.003	0.912	−.028	0.211	.006	0.788
Asian-Pacific Islander (Non-Hispanic)	−.055	0.172	.024	0.730	−.128	0.060	−.018	0.805
Hispanic	.005	0.847	.045	0.326	−.093	0.036	.097	0.042
Residence location status
Urban	.012	0.311	−.023	0.230	.052	0.007	−.009	0.659
Rural/Highly Rural †
Marital status
Married/Lives with significant other	−.022	0.040	−.031	0.084	.003	0.854	−.037	0.053
Single/Separated/Divorced/Widowed (No Data) †
Primary Cancer
Colorectal †
Lung	.030	0.028	.004	0.871	.000	0.986	.059	0.018
Pancreatic	.027	0.039	.016	0.476	.050	0.026	.021	0.373
Brain Metastasis at Diagnosis
Yes	−.014	0.414	−.015	0.615	.014	0.625	−.021	0.513
No or No Data †
Adult Co-morbidity Evaluation Score (ACE-27)
None	.047	0.034	.079	0.037	.015	0.695	.053	0.184
Mild	.004	0.775	.032	0.138	.007	0.732	−.011	0.624
Moderate	.018	0.224	.048	0.050	−.006	0.790	.026	0.321
Severe †
Co-pay exempt for medication
Yes	.002	0.840	.035	0.063	−.008	0.650	−.001	0.964
No or No Data †
Clinical Trial Participation
Yes	−.021	0.332	−.018	0.624	−.009	0.801	−.031	0.423
No or No Data †
Died during 3 year follow up
Yes	.027	0.185	−.031	0.392	.070	0.042	.033	0.376
No †
Homeless
Yes	−.016	0.608	−.015	0.771	−.020	0.690	.019	0.729
No or No Data †

^**If p-value is ≤ 0.05 for bivariate comparisons.

^†Denotes reference group.

^***Cohen’s d statistic for palliative care association with overall quality is 0.066/0.139=0.475

^****Cohen’s d statistic for palliative care association with quality in the information and care planning domain is 0.114/0.235=0.487