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Table 2 Multivariate risk ratios and 95% confidence limits for cancelling for financial reasons. (This table compares financial reason to non-financial reason for cancellation while controlling for gender)

From: Effect of high up front charges on access to surgery for poor patients at a public hospital in New Mexico

Variable

RR (95% CI)

p-value

Payment source and race/ethnicity

  

   Insured and Non-Hispanic white

1.00

 

   Insured and other race/ethnicity

2.82 (1.38, 5.77)

0.004

   Self-pay and Non-Hispanic white

8.76 (4.09, 18.80)

<0.0001

   Self-pay and other race/ethnicity

8.61 (4.34, 17.08)

<0.0001