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Table 3 Factors explaining the monthly price differential between pensioners and non-pensioners dispensations.

From: Are prescribing doctors sensitive to the price that their patients have to pay in the Spanish National Health System?

Models

M1

M2

M3

Variables fixed part: estimated coefficients and significance

FC

9.74*

--

--

 

RC

-0.32

--

--

 

Price*FC

--

0.4920**

0.4273**

 

Intercept

--

-1.71

-1.44

Random effects

Withinclass correlation

77.2%

48.9%

61.6%#

 

Var(U0)

143.7376

36.5447

58.3749

 

Var(U3)

--

---

0.0147

 

Var(e)

42.3655

38.1651

37.7826

Deviance (-2 Log L)

9399.3

9230.4

9228.8

  1. Multilevel models.
  2. n = 1413. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; # Estimated for the monthly average (€12.0). FC if non-pensioners pay a copayment of 40%, RC if non-pensioners pay a reduced co-payment of 10% with a ceiling of €2.64.