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Table 4 Costs in € (year 2009 values) during 3-month period for users of respective services

From: Health care costs in the elderly in Germany: an analysis applying Andersen’s behavioral model of health care utilization

 

Mean costs in € per respondent (SD)

 

Resource

All

Male

Female

p-valuea

 

n = varies

n = varies

n = varies

 

Inpatient care

4,517.7 (4,555.4)

4,355.6 (4,347.4)

4,663 (4,745.7)

0.56

Outpatient care

    

  Outpatient physician services

183.0 (237.2)

178.6 (266.0)

187.0 (208.2)

0.35

  Non-physician providers

144.6 (160.1)

143.1 (108.3)

146.1 (181.4)

0.83

  Medical supplies and dental prostheses

285.6 (804.9)

306.1 (922.1)

270.8 (708.8)

0.57

  Pharmaceuticals

200.4 (305.1)

214.7 (318.0)

187.6 (292.6)

0.02

Nursing care

    

  Formal

909.2 (1361.9)

1,011.0 (1,974.1)

855.7 (963.3)

0.81

  Informal

2,515.8 (3,361.4)

4,021.5 (4,219.4)

1,398.6 (1,968.5)

<0.01

Any service or good

906.8 (2,200.2)

912.7 (2,248.1)

901.4 (2,157.1)

0.89

  1. aSimple OLS regression with bootstrapped standard errors (4,000 replications).