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. 2018 Nov 27;10(11):849–855. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v10.i11.849

Table 3.

Multinomial logistic regression to evaluate disparities in treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma based on payer1, 2

Intervention Race Odds ratio Confidence interval
Liver Transplant African-American Reference
Caucasian 2.66 1.92-3.68
Hispanic 2.18 1.40-3.39
Other/unknown 2.41 1.62-3.61
Resection African-American Reference
Caucasian 1.82 1.48-2.23
Hispanic 1.24 0.94-1.64
Other/unknown 1.79 1.39-2.32
Ablation African-American Reference
Caucasian 1.77 1.36-2.30
Hispanic 1.46 1.05-2.03
Other/unknown 2.03 1.47-2.80
TACE African-American Reference
Caucasian 1.15 0.93-1.41
Hispanic 1.29 0.97-1.72
Other/unknown 1.19 0.90-1.58

1Noninvasive treatment is treated as the reference category; 2Model adjusts for age, gender, race, geographic region, hepatitis C, hepatitis B, alcohol, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, liver decompensation features, and Elixhauser comorbidity score. TACE: Transarterial chemoablation.