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Table 5 Multiple Tobit regression analyses with mean costs in 3-month period in € (year 2008 values) as dependent variable for total costs and by health care sector
| Predictor variables | Total costs | Inpatient costs | Outpatient costs | Nursing costs | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b (SE) (p-value)a | b (SE) (p-value)a | b (SE) (p-value)a | b (SE) (p-value)a | ||||||||||
| Predisposing factors | Age (centered) | 13.33** | (4.33) | (0.002) | 9.51* | (4.34) | (0.028) | 3.44* | (1.41) | (0.015) | 2.70*** | (0.62) | (0.000) |
| Female gender (ref: male) | 21.65 | (55.06) | (0.694) | 53.46 | (55.52) | (0.336) | -12.91 | (17.89) | (0.471) | -2.70 | (6.58) | (0.682) | |
| Marital status (ref: married) | |||||||||||||
| Single | 139.92 | (148.79) | (0.347) | 208.98 | (187.53) | (0.265) | -5.57 | (45.92) | (0.903) | 30.72 | (30.40) | (0.312) | |
| Divorced | 103.85 | (104.36) | (0.320) | 246.97 | (139.17) | (0.076) | -23.71 | (32.22) | (0.462) | 6.68 | (15.69) | (0.670) | |
| Widowed | 79.49 | (74.99) | (0.289) | 146.20 | (84.96) | (0.085) | -16.02 | (23.70) | (0.499) | 6.57 | (8.98) | (0.465) | |
| Education (ref: ≤ 9 years of schooling) | |||||||||||||
| 10-11 years of schooling | -14.95 | (69.77) | (0.830) | -46.73 | (65.42) | (0.475) | 41.26 | (23.29) | (0.077) | 9.80 | (10.64) | (0.357) | |
| ≥ 12 years of schooling | -122.42 | (76.53) | (0.110) | -160.88** | (62.54) | (0.010) | -26.87 | (25.35) | (0.289) | 2.40 | (10.25) | (0.815) | |
| Body mass indexc | 11.37* | (5.37) | (0.034) | 1.74 | (5.25) | (0.740) | 5.88** | (1.75) | (0.001) | 0.54 | (0.59) | (0.362) | |
| Enabling | Incomeb c | 0.02 | (0.043) | (0.653) | 0.03 | (0.04) | (0.505) | 0.02 | (0.014) | (0.107) | -0.01 | (0.01) | (0.382) |
| Private health insurance (ref: statutory) | 146.31 | (106.51) | (0.170) | 175.79 | (130.97) | (0.180) | 54.08 | (34.31) | (0.115) | 0.85 | (14.65) | (0.954) | |
| Lubben social network scalec | 4.53 | (5.17) | (0.381) | 5.92 | (5.06) | (0.242) | -1.01 | (1.68) | (0.548) | 0.31 | (0.58) | (0.596) | |
| Need | CIRS-G scorec | 41.18*** | (5.05) | (0.000) | 18.23*** | (4.77) | (0.000) | 17.19*** | (1.64) | (0.000) | 3.05*** | (0.68) | (0.000) |
| SF-12 Mental component summary (MCS)c | -13.90*** | (2.72) | (0.000) | -8.71*** | (2.59) | (0.001) | -3.56*** | (0.89) | (0.000) | -1.14*** | (0.33) | (0.001) | |
| Averaged pseudo R2 | 0.003 | 0.008 | 0.004 | 0.007 | |||||||||
| Averaged Chi2 | 158.04 | 58.52 | 195.52 | 139.65 | |||||||||
