Do Gender and Race/Ethnicity Influence Acute Myocardial Infarction Quality of Care in a Hospital with a Large Hispanic Patient and Provider Representation?

Table 4

Events rates (Poisson regression) in Hispanic and non-Hispanic patients with a confirmed AMI for a composite drug use by multivariable logistic regression of the listed predictors.

Composite drug index	(All AMI 𝑛=387)		Event R.	95% CI
Predictors	𝑏	P-value
Age	−0.002	0.157	1.00	0.99	1.00
Men versus women	−0.022	0.66	0.98	0.89	1.07
Hispanic/non-Hispanic white	0.010	0.83	1.01	0.92	1.11
Hx diabetes	0.037	0.044	1.04	0.95	1.14
Hx hypertension	0.063	0.23	1.07	0.96	1.18
Hx smoking	−0.010	0.084	0.99	0.90	1.09
Renal failure	−0.173	0.003	0.84	0.75	0.94
Hx previous MI	−0.045	0.41	0.96	0.86	1.06
Hx previous revascularization	0.106	0.082	1.11	0.99	1.25
Private versus nonprivate insurance	0.041	0.38	1.04	0.95	1.14

AMI: acute myocardial infarction; Drug Index: proportion of in-hospital and discharge use of drugs (please see Methods for details); Hx: history; MI: myocardial infarction.