Utilization of In-Hospital Care among Foreign-Born Compared to Native Swedes 1987–1999

Table 2

Multiple linear regression with age at death (constant) and being/not being a foreign-born person adjusted for age in relation to utilization of hospital care.

Diagnosis	Number of hospital admissions		Total number of days		Number of days at the two last hospital admissions
	Significance	𝛽-value	Significance	𝛽-value	Significance	𝛽-value
Neoplasm
Age	0.000	−0.613	NS	—	0.000	0.864
Foreign-born person or not	NS	—	NS	—	NS	—
Diseases of the circ. syst.
Age	0.000	−0.782	0.000	0.058	0.000	0.299
Foreign-born person or not	0.038	0.009	0.018	0.011	0.005	0.012
Injury and poisoning
Age	0.000	−1.199	NS	—	NS	—
Foreign-born person or not	0.012	−0.043	NS	—	NS	—
Signs and ill-defined conditions
Age	0.000	−0.718	0.000	0.677	0.000	0.898
Foreign-born person or not	0.006	−0.072	0.040	−0.054	NS	—