Table 5

Crude and adjusted ORs for demographic and diagnostic variables and death in hospital

Characteristic	Crude OR (95% CI)	p (Wald test)	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	p (Wald test)	p (likelihood ratio test)
Age group
28 days–1 year	1 (reference)		1 (reference)		0.209
1–4 years	0.56 (0.34 to 0.94)	0.027	0.70 (0.41 to 1.20)	0.196
5–9 years	0.42 (0.23 to 0.79)	0.007	0.54 (0.28 to 1.06)	0.072
10–14 years	0.60 (0.34 to 1.05)	0.075	0.95 (0.51 to 1.76)	0.868
15–18 years	0.44 (0.26,0.73)	0.002	0.61 (0.35 to 1.06)	0.081
Socioeconomic status (NZdep2006)
Quintile 1 (least deprived)	1 (reference)		1 (reference)		0.507
Quintile 2	0.89 (0.49 to 1.63)	0.711	0.84 (0.45 to 1.59)	0.602
Quintile 3	0.64 (0.34 to 1.21)	0.169	0.55 (0.28 to 1.09)	0.088
Quintile 4	0.91 (0.50 to 1.64)	0.741	0.86 (0.46 to 1.62)	0.648
Quintile 5 (most deprived)	1.15 (0.67 to 2.00)	0.610	0.84 (0.45 to 1.57)	0.594
Ethnic group
European/MELAA/Other	1 (reference)		1 (reference)
Pacific	1.68 (0.95 to 2.96)	0.072	2.22 (1.15 to 4.29)	0.018	0.016
Maori	1.22 (0.82 to 1.81)	0.033	1.42 (0.89 to 2.25)	0.142	0.141
Asian	1.82 (0.86 to 3.83)	0.117	2.66 (1.17 to 6.04)	0.019	0.016
Paediatric palliative care service	0.52 (0.33 to 0.80)	0.003	0.60 (0.38 to 0.96)	0.032	0.032
Malignancy (reference=non-malignant diagnosis)	0.39 (0.26 to 0.59)	<0.001	0.48 (0.30 to 0.75)	0.001	0.001