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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2019 May 30;125(18):3259–3265. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32188

Table 4.

Relationship between patient-caregiver agreement on life-expectancy and hospice enrollment

Predictor OR 95% CI p
UCD vs. URMC 0.20 0.08, .49 <.001
Breast cancer vs. other cancer 0.85 0.35, 2.07 0.71
Age, years 1.01 0.97, 1.05 0.57
Male vs. female gender 0.41 0.15, 1.09 0.07
Some college or more vs. other 2.54 1.08, 5.96 0.03
Dyads disagree vs agree on longer life-expectancy 3.15 1.35, 7.33 <0.01
Dyads agree on shorter vs agree on longer life-expectancy 7.99 2.4, 26.6 <0.001

Note UCD: University of California – Davis; URMC: University of Rochester Medical Center