Table 3 Multivariate analysis of waiting times for elective care (estimates with standard error in parentheses)
From: Are waiting times for hospital admissions affected by patients' choices and mobility?
Variable: | Model 1 | Sig. | Model 2 | Sig. | Model 3 | Sig. | Model 4 | Sig. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Estimate (S.E) | Estimate (S.E) | Estimate (S.E) | Estimate (S.E) | |||||
Age | -0.31 (0.63) | -0.35 (0.64) | -0.01 (0.01) | -0.00 (0.00) | ||||
Gender | 23.66 (12.54) | * | 24.27 (12.53) | * | 0.15 (0.15) | 0.30 (0.13) | ** | |
Distance to local hospital | -0.18 (0.26) | -0.14 (0.26) | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.00 (0.00) | ||||
Education | -5.50 (4.24) | -3.74 (4.29) | -0.11 (0.07) | * | - | |||
Income | -9.31 (9.54) | -10.98 (9.55) | -0.08 (0.12) | - | ||||
Health status | -99.07 (28.76) | **** | -90.19 (28.96) | *** | -0.51 (0.32) | 0.24 (0.40) | ||
Number of visits to GP | -89.67 (27.31) | **** | -85.95 (27.30) | *** | -0.03 (0.29) | 0.20 (0.31) | ||
Number of hospital stays | 0.83 (26.15) | 5.59 (26.23) | 0.16 (0.30) | 0.52 (0.31) | * | |||
Non-choice & non-mobile | - | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||
Choice & non-mobile | - | -50.60 (30.12) | * | -0.24 (0.45) | - | |||
Non-choice & mobile | - | -65.80 (33.58) | ** | -1.29 (0.32) | **** | - | ||
Choice & mobile | - | -78.19 (36.04) | ** | -0.62 (0.33) | * | - | ||
IV for choice/mobility | - | - | - | -5.36 (1.46) | **** | |||
Year 2003 | 76.58 (24.77) | *** | 77.04 (24.88) | *** | -0.45 (0.28) | -0.34 (0.27) | ||
Year 2004 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||
ICD10 chapter 2 | 307.39(51.84) | **** | 304.16 (51.88) | **** | 1.71 (0.59) | *** | 4.33 (1.52) | *** |
ICD10 chapter 4 | 351.46 (77.57) | **** | 347.25 (77.49) | **** | 2.26 (0.51) | **** | 4.92 (1.64) | **** |
ICD10 chapter 6 | 69.70 (53.65) | 80.17 (53.83) | -0.70 (0.77) | 1.66 (1.51) | ||||
ICD10 chapter 7 | 106.32 (59.83) | * | 112.60 (59.82) | * | 1.02 (0.57) | * | 3.63 (1.55) | ** |
ICD10 chapter 8 | 240.73 (71.45) | **** | 239.69 (71.43) | **** | 1.10 (1.10) | 3.83 (1.61) | ** | |
ICD10 chapter 9 | 53.65 (52.34) | 46.92 (52.38) | 1.17 (0.66) | * | 3.80 (1.51) | ** | ||
ICD10 chapter 10 | 104.20(63.39) | 101.55 (63.30) | 1.38 (0.52) | *** | 4.12 (1.55) | *** | ||
ICD10 chapter 11 | 75.02 (56.06) | 67.08 (56.12) | 1.70 (0.49) | **** | 4.32 (1.53) | **** | ||
ICD10 chapter 12 | 82.97 (63.19) | 72.68 (63.35) | 1.30 (0.58) | ** | 3.97 (1.57) | ** | ||
ICD10 chapter 13 | 124.00 (39.46) | *** | 126.27 (39.49) | *** | 1.02 (0.47) | ** | 3.61 (1.47) | ** |
ICD10 chapter 14 | 76.00 (59.14) | 72.22 (59.15) | 1.18 (0.51) | ** | 3.73 (1.54) | ** | ||
ICD10 chapter 15 | -21.30(68.32) | -26.36 (68.40) | -0.75 (1.26) | 1.87 (1.60) | ||||
ICD10 chapter 17 | 274.38 (84.51) | **** | 276.53 (84.42) | **** | 2.28 (0.57) | **** | 5.10 (1.66) | **** |
ICD10 chapter 18 | -30.48 (61.28) | -33.45 (61.24) | 0.49 (0.81) | 3.11 (1.55) | ** | |||
ICD10 chapter 19 | -53.81 (54.18) | -49.94 (54.16) | -1.42 (0.87) | 1.18 (1.51) | ||||
ICD10 chapter 21 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.61 (1.46) | * | |||
Medical treatment | 83.71 (28.57) | *** | 73.27 (28.80) | *** | 0.60 (0.28) | ** | - | |
Surgical treatment | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | ||||
Estimation procedure | OLS with fixed effects | OLS with fixed effects | OLS with fixed effects | 2SLS with fixed effects | ||||
Number of observations | 1274 | 1274 | 1348 | 1361 | ||||
-2LogLikelihood | 19202 | 19169 | 8048 | |||||
R2 | 0,07 | |||||||
****sig. = 0.001, *** sig. = 0.01, **sig. = 0.05, *sig. = 0.10 | ||||||||