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.