Table 2.
Association of Insurance Status with Mortality among Patients with AIDS in the Longitudinal Study of the Ocular Complications of AIDS Cohort
Insurance status* | Entire Cohort (N=2363) | Patients with Suppressed HIV Load (N=794) | |||||||||
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Deaths/N† | Rate (/100 PY)‡ | HR§ | 95% CI¶ | P-value | Deaths/N | Rate (/100 PY) | HR | 95% CI | P-value | ||
Private | 205/743 | 3.3 | 1.00 | 27/271 | 1.1 | 1.00 | |||||
Medicare | 235/688 | 4.9 | 1.54 | 1.28–1.86 | <0.0001 | 49/247 | 2.7 | 2.53 | 1.57–4.09 | 0.0001 | |
Medicaid | 188/560 | 5.0 | 1.36 | 1.11–1.66 | 0.003 | 24/189 | 1.8 | 1.60 | 0.91–2.81 | 0.10 | |
Uninsured | 105/372 | 3.8 | 1.00 | 0.79–1.28 | 0.97 | 6/97 | 0.9 | 0.77 | 0.31–1.90 | 0.57 |
Patients with private insurance and a second insurance classified as private; patients with Medicare and Medicaid classified as Medicare.
N = number.
PY = person-years.
HR = hazard ratio.
CI = confidence interval.