Table 2.

Predictors of medical assistance in dying

	Basic analysis*		Adjusted analysis†
	Relative	Confidence	Relative	Confidence
Variable	Risk	Interval	Risk	Interval
Income quintile‡	0.61	0.50 to 0.75	0.63	0.51 to 0.77
Age >75 years	0.77	0.67 to 0.88	0.71	0.62 to 0.82
Male sex	0.92	0.81 to 1.05	0.97	0.85 to 1.11
Rural home location§	1.35	1.10 to 1.65	1.16	0.94 to 1.43
Malignancy diagnosis¶	0.98	0.85 to 1.13	0.99	0.98 to 1.01
Total medications**	1.00	1.00 to 1.01	1.02	1.01 to 1.02
Clinic contacts in past year**	0.99	0.98 to 0.99	0.99	0.99 to 1.00
Emergencies in past year**	0.93	0.89 to 0.96	1.01	0.97 to 1.05
Admissions in past year**	0.69	0.65 to 0.73	0.80	0.74 to 0.86
Overall frailty in past year††	0.87	0.85 to 0.88	0.90	0.88 to 0.92

Contacts, emergencies, admissions, frailty.

*No adjustment for baseline differences.

†Adjusted for age, sex, location, malignancy, medications.

‡Compares lowest to highest quintile.

§Referent is urban location.

¶Denotes one or more diagnoses.

**Covariate coded as a continuous variable.

††Defined by Johns Hopkins frailty index.