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Table 4 OLS regression results: healthcare costs (N = 1047)

From: Centralising acute stroke care within clinical practice in the Netherlands: lower bounds of the causal impact

Total costs at 3 months ($US)

Restricted

Full

Centralised

− 1704a (626)

− 1611b (626)

Gender

 

1255a (522)

Age 25–45 (baseline)

 Age 46–65

 

2150a (931)

 Age 65–96

 

2317b (661)

 IVT received

 

− 755 (850)

GP (baseline)

 911

 

−58 (700)

 Self-referral

 

527 (752)

 Intra-hospital

 

509 (1386)

SNIHSS on arrival

 

762b (139)

Transported by EMS

 

2847b (661)

Constant

9944b (319)

3838b (808)

R-squared

0.0063

0.1020

  1. GP General Practitioner, sNIHSS short National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, EMS Emergency Medical Services. Robust standard errors are presented in the parentheses. Inference: a/b indicate significant differences at the 5%/1% level