Table 6 Logistic regression main effects and interactions of neighborhood poverty and primary payer on wait times from diagnosis to surgery and from surgery to radiation therapy among women with local-regional breast cancer
| Â | Â | Â | Â | [No chemotherapy] | [Had chemotherapy] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Waited > 60 days | Waited > 90 days | Waited > 210 days | ||||||
| Â | diagnosis to surgery | surgery to radiation therapy | surgery to radiation therapy | ||||||
Predictor variables | Sample | OR | (95% CI) | Sample | OR | (95% CI) | Sample | OR | (95% CI) |
| Â | Single predictor models | ||||||||
Neighborhood poverty | |||||||||
  < 5% poor | 1,975  | 1.00 |  | 640 | 1.00 |  | 403 | 1.00 |  |
  5-29% poor | 1,901  | 1.21 | (0.92, 1.59) | 507 | 1.06 | (0.71, 1.57) | 382 | 0.84 | (0.59, 1.18) |
  ≥ 30% poor | 1,841  | 1.88 | (1.46, 2.43) | 382 | 1.50 | (1.01, 2.25) | 361 | 0.89 | (0.63, 1.26) |
Primary payer | |||||||||
  Uninsured or Medicaid | 934  | 1.00 |  | 224 | 1.00 |  | 252 | 1.00 |  |
  Medicare or private | 4,783  | 0.61 | (0.48, 0.77) | 1,305 | 0.52 | (0.35, 0.77) | 894 | 0.87 | (0.62, 1.23) |
| Â | Full models | ||||||||
Neighborhood poverty | |||||||||
  < 5% poor | 1,975  | 1.00 |  | 640  | 1.00 |  | 403  | 1.00 |  |
  5-29% poor | 1,901  | 1.95* | (0.94, 4.03) | 507  | 1.02 | (0.69, 1.52) | 382  | 1.92 | (1.02, 3.61) |
  ≥ 30% poor | 1,841  | 2.86 | (1.40, 5.82) | 382  | 1.37 | (0.91, 2.06) | 362  | 1.54 | (0.83, 2.84) |
Primary payer | |||||||||
  Uninsured or Medicaid | 934  | 1.00 |  | 224  | 1.00 |  | 252  | 1.00 |  |
  Medicare or private | 4,783  | 1.13 | (0.56, 2.29) | 1,305  | 0.55 | (0.37, 0.82) | 894  | 0.65 | (0.42, 1.00) |
Poverty by payer | 5,717  | 0.52* | (0.25, 1.11) | 1,529  | 1.03a | (0.64, 1.67) | 1,146  | 1.96* | (0.97, 3.97) |
| Â | Poverty by payer interaction on surgical wait times of more than 2 months | ||||||||
| Â | Â | > 5% poor | Â | < 5% poor | Â | ||||
| Â | Â | Sample | OR | (95% CI) | Â | Sample | OR | (95% CI) | Â |
Primary payer | |||||||||
  Uninsured or Medicaid |  | 765  | 1.00 |  |  | 169  | 1.00 |  |  |
  Medicare or private |  | 2,977  | 0.58 | (0.44, 0.75) |  | 1,806  | 1.18 | (0.58, 2.39) |  |
| Â | Poverty by payer interaction among women who received chemotherapy on post-surgical wait times of more than 7 months for RT | ||||||||
| Â | Â | > 30% poor | Â | < 30% poor | Â | ||||
| Â | Â | Sample | OR | (95% CI) | Â | Sample | OR | (95% CI) | Â |
Primary payer | |||||||||
  Uninsured or Medicaid |  | 121 | 1.00 |  |  | 131 | 1.00 |  |  |
  Medicare or private |  | 240 | 0.96 | (0.59, 1.57) |  | 654 | 0.70* | (0.47, 1.03) |  |