Table 5.

Relative rate of ED presentations and hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions over the last year of life for decedents with intellectual disability compared with the matched comparison cohort

Ambulatory care sensitive conditions	ED presentations			Hospital admissions
	RR	95% CI	P	RR	95% CI	P
Vaccine preventable
Influenza and pneumonia	2.6	2.0 to 3.4	<0.001	2.3	1.0 to 5.3	0.044
Other vaccine preventable		NE			NE
Chronic
Diabetes complications	1.6	0.4 to 5.9	0.489	0.8	0.4 to 1.5	0.441
Nutritional deficiencies		NE		21.8	1.6 to 292.3	0.020
Iron deficiency anaemia	2.9	1.2 to 7.1	0.018	2.0	1.0 to 4.2	0.055
Hypertension		NE			NE
Congestive heart failure	1.0	0.6 to 1.9	0.905	1.1	0.7 to 1.8	0.696
Angina	1.0	0.4 to 2.4	0.999	1.3	0.6 to 2.8	0.509
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	0.8	0.5 to 1.6	0.596	1.4	0.9 to 2.4	0.164
Asthma	4.7	2.1 to 10.4	<0.001	4.6	1.4 to 15.0	0.011
Acute
Dehydration and gastroenteritis	2.3	1.2 to 4.3	0.008	0.7	0.2 to 2.0	0.518
Convulsions and epilepsy	6.2	3.9 to 9.9	<0.001	4.3	2.6 to 6.9	<0.001
Ear, nose and throat infections	1.9	0.8 to 4.0	0.122	0.0	0.0-.	0.972
Dental conditions	0.9	0.2 to 3.9	0.932	1.3	0.5 to 3.4	0.655
Cellulitis	1.7	1.0 to 2.7	0.038	2.5	1.5 to 4.1	0.001
Gangrene	1.5	0.2 to 11.3	0.670		NE
Perforated/bleeding ulcer		NE			NE
Pyelonephritis		NE			NE
Pneumonitis due to solids/liquids	17.9	11.3 to 28.3	<0.001	17.6	11.7 to 26.5	<0.001

ED, emergency department; NE, not estimable due to small numbers of events in the cohort of decedents with intellectual disability; RR, rate ratio estimated from negative binomial count model adjusted for age, sex, index of relative disadvantage, partner status, indigenous status, being Australian born and number of comorbid conditions and strata weights applied.