For common cancers, individual, disease-related and area of residence factors were consistently associated with, but not strongly predictive of place of death.
We then took death in hospice, nursing home, NHS acute hospital and at home as our four dependent variables and fitted logistic regression models to identify individual demographic, disease-related and area of residence factors predicting in turn each of these outcomes versus the others.
For the discriminant function 1, the residence time factor (factor 2) with the largest coefficient 1.13 has the most substantial differentiating ability for discriminate scores and it is followed with the "salinity" factor (factor 2) which shows the second largest discriminate ability.
‡Model adjusted for age, sex, region of residence, Socioeconomic Factor Index (24 ), and week of specimen collection.
‡Model adjusted for age, sex, region of residence, Socioeconomic Factor Index (24 ), and week of specimen collection, no.
In fact, the ACF cohort comprised more patients with rural residence, a factor that has been associated with lower adherence in other studies (25).
Predictors of quality of life considered in this study are the following: social and demographic factors (age, sex, marital status, education, place of residence); clinical factors (disease duration, physical activity, coexisting diseases, BMI & WHR); and laboratory values (glycemia and total cholesterol concentration in blood serum).
These findings retained significance after multivariate analysis and even after area of residence was factored in.
Information about residence, lifestyle factors, medical history and occupation was collected from all parents by a mailed questionnaire.
