Table 5 |
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Characteristics associated with inpatient (Box-Cox transformed) medical expenditures, multilevel analyses: Public insurance (NHI) beneficiaries versus public aid (AID) beneficiaries (N = 160,465). |
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NHI beneficiary |
AID beneficiary |
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(n = 92,959) |
(n = 67,506) |
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Characteristics |
Rate of change (%) |
p-value |
Rate of change (%) |
p-value |
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Gender |
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Female (referent) |
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Male |
12.29 |
0.000 |
9.76 |
0.000 |
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Age (years) |
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<20 (referent) |
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20-29 |
8.59 |
0.000 |
24.05 |
0.000 |
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30-39 |
6.92 |
0.001 |
30.19 |
0.000 |
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40-49 |
1.69 |
0.416 |
34.99 |
0.000 |
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50-64 |
10.03 |
0.000 |
39.72 |
0.000 |
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≥ 65 |
9.23 |
0.000 |
25.65 |
0.000 |
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Principal sub-diagnosis |
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F4 (referent) |
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F0 |
75.69 |
0.000 |
44.84 |
0.000 |
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F1 |
55.25 |
0.000 |
32.37 |
0.000 |
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F2 |
120.10 |
0.000 |
82.77 |
0.000 |
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F3 |
61.58 |
0.000 |
23.16 |
0.000 |
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F5 |
21.39 |
0.000 |
-0.16 |
0.990 |
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F6 |
59.80 |
0.000 |
31.10 |
0.000 |
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F7 |
75.12 |
0.000 |
66.51 |
0.000 |
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F8-9 |
37.30 |
0.000 |
45.55 |
0.000 |
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Type |
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General hospital (referent) |
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Clinic |
60.00 |
0.000 |
-3.73 |
0.774 |
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Hospital |
52.00 |
0.000 |
6.78 |
0.471 |
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Tertiary care hospital |
27.00 |
0.006 |
-7.63 |
0.557 |
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Long-term care hospital |
60.00 |
0.000 |
19.54 |
0.310 |
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Psychiatric clinic |
46.00 |
0.000 |
9.36 |
0.431 |
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Psychiatric hospital |
74.00 |
0.000 |
42.10 |
0.000 |
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Ownership |
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Government (referent) |
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Private group |
-1.80 |
0.825 |
32.19 |
0.000 |
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Private person |
-10.70 |
0.236 |
17.75 |
0.039 |
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Location |
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Metropolis (referent) |
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Small/medium city |
-1.78 |
0.686 |
3.92 |
0.369 |
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Rural area |
7.52 |
0.324 |
-2.30 |
0.741 |
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Number of beds |
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<260 (referent) |
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260-399 |
4.09 |
0.540 |
11.44 |
0.067 |
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400-626 |
10.47 |
0.164 |
11.02 |
0.128 |
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≥ 627 |
4.83 |
0.534 |
1.96 |
0.824 |
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Human resources: Score 1 |
0.03 |
0.216 |
-0.09 |
0.006 |
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Pro of male patients |
0.64 |
0.000 |
0.43 |
0.016 |
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Pro of patients ≥ 65-year-old |
0.24 |
0.106 |
0.09 |
0.593 |
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Pro of patients diagnosed into F0 or F2 |
0.60 |
0.000 |
0.26 |
0.068 |
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Pro of patients receiving AID |
-0.05 |
0.649 |
0.42 |
0.002 |
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Note: The estimated coefficients were converted to the corresponding rate of change evaluated at the median of medical expenditures among inpatients enrolled in each public health insurance programme; Score 1 = 0.54 × Number of physicians per 100 beds + 0.55 × Number of nurses per 100 beds + 0.33 × Number of nursing assistants per 100 beds + 0.55 × Number of other healthcare and social service professionals per 100 beds; pro denotes proportion. |
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Chung BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:263 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-10-263 |
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