Contents | Search | eMJA Home     

Casemix: moving forward

3: Number of comorbidities (percentage of total for ethnic group)

No. of
comorbidities
ATSI-rural
ATSI-urban
Ratio ATSI-rural/ATSI-urban
Total ATSI
Non-ATSI
Ratio ATSI/Non-ATSI
0
441 (24.7%)
276 (65.6%)
0.4:1*
717 (32.4%)
1224 (88.9%)
0.4:1*
1
324 (18.1%)
69 (16.4%)
1.1:1
393 (17.8%)
119 (8.6%)
2.1:1*
2
471 (26.3%)
47 (11.2%)
2.4:1*
518 (23.4%)
26 (4.8%)
4.9:1*
3
379 (21.2%)
17 (4.0%)
5.3:1*
396 (17.9%)
5 (0.4%)
44.8:1*
4
150 (8.4%)
9 (2.1%)
4.0:1*
159 (7.2%)
3 (0.2%)
36.0:1*
5
24 (1.3%)
3 (1.1%)
1.2:1
27 (1.2%)
0
ATSI = Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
*Statistically significant difference in proportions.

Back to article . . .

<URL: http://www.mja.com.au/> © 1998 Medical Journal of Australia.