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Table 5 Access to care and readmission outcomes by societal and community SSS concordance

From: An exploration of the subjective social status construct in patients with acute coronary syndrome

 

Low Societal SSS

High Societal SSS

 

Concordantly Low Community SSS

N = 314, n (%)

Discordantly High Community SSS

N = 204, n (%)

P-value

Concordantly High Community SSS

N = 502, n (%)

Discordantly Low Community SSS

N = 70, n (%)

P-value

No family doctor

63 (20.3)

44 (21.8)

0.74

69 (13.8)

11 (15.7)

0.71

Difficulty accessing cardiologist

48 (20.6)

13 (8.4)

< 0.01

63 (16.3)

5 (9.3)

0.23

Difficulty getting routine care

57 (18.9)

44 (23.4)

0.25

90 (19.4)

14 (22.6)

0.61

Barriers in getting routine carea

20 (29.4)

13 (24.1)

0.55

29 (29.9)

4 (26.7)

1.00

38 (55.9)

29 (52.7)

0.86

60 (61.9)

9 (60.0)

1.00

13 (19.7)

17 (31.5)

0.15

19 (19.6)

4 (26.7)

0.51

20 (29.9)

21 (38.9)

0.34

32 (32.7)

8 (53.3)

0.15

20 (30.3)

17 (31.5)

1.00

25 (25.5)

6 (40.0)

0.35

8 (11.9)

2 (3.7)

0.18

1 (1.0)

0 (0.0)

1.00

3 (4.6)

1 (1.9)

0.63

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

1.00

6 (9.1)

1 (1.9)

0.13

5 (5.2)

1 (6.7)

0.59

9 (13.6)

2 (3.7)

0.11

1 (1.0)

0 (0.0)

1.00

4 (7.7)

4 (8.9)

1.00

3 (3.6)

0 (0.0)

1.00

Health affected by lack of access

92 (37.6)

61 (39.9)

0.67

111 (29.3)

18 (32.7)

0.64

Readmission within 1 year b

35 (11.8)

29 (14.7)

0.41

47 (9.7)

6 (9.0)

1.00

25 (8.4)

20 (10.1)

0.53

25 (5.1)

3 (4.6)

1.00

  1. Abbreviations: SSS subjective social status, appt- appointment, GP general practitioner
  2. a Sample sizes are those indicating difficulty in getting routine care
  3. b Sample sizes at 1 year: Low societal/Low community = 296; Low societal/High community = 198; High societal/High community = 487; High societal/Low community = 67
  4. Italics: Statistically significant difference, p< 0.05