Table 5 Willingness to pay (WTP) for physicians with high and medium sense of responsibility in emergency departments in different groups
From: Preferences of Iranians to select the emergency department physician at the time of service delivery
Variable | High responsibility | Medium responsibility | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
WTP | Standard Error | WTP | Standard Error | |
High school or less education | 23.403** | 10.253 | 14.023** | 6.256 |
Bachelor’s degree | 221.245 | 566.027 | 137.443 | 352.324 |
More than bachelor’s degree | 64.338 | 40.925 | 39.653 | 25.527 |
Males | 77.591 | 50.146 | 48.446 | 31.512 |
Females | 51.771 | 34.560 | 31.065 | 20.950 |
Low health status | 17.601 | 10.784 | 9.415 | 5.978 |
Average health status | 21.841** | 7.854 | 14.735** | 5.414 |
High health status | 354.081 | 989.319 | 213.736 | 598.014 |
Age < 25 years | 68.680 | 71.598 | 48.133 | 50.450 |
Age 25–45 years | 68.520* | 41.423 | 42.011 | 25.624 |
Age > 45 years | 59.405 | 62.338 | 29.774 | 31.543 |
Low income | 37.041* | 17.262 | 22.655** | 10.652 |
High income | 103.548 | 90.402 | 64.059 | 56.270 |
Low financial status | 33.416** | 15.451 | 18.866** | 8.879 |
Middle financial status | 60.786* | 35.333 | 39.900* | 23.365 |
High financial status | − 166.645 | 444.005 | − 100.756 | 267.622 |