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Table 6 Multiple linear regression analysis of the cost

From: Economic burden of childhood diarrhea in Burundi

Variables

β

SE

P-Value

Constant health facility type (ref: health center)

8.991

0161

< 0.001

 Hospital

0.907

0.16

< 0.001

Patient type (ref: outpatient)

 Inpatient

1.28

0.17

< 0.001

Antibiotics use (ref: No use)

 Use

0.451

0.138

< 0.001

Episode before consultation (ref: episode ≤2 days)

 Episode> 2 days

0.285

0.092

0.002

Insurance scheme (ref: free health care scheme)

 MFP

0.589

0.182

0.002

Complication with diarrhea (ref: no dehydration)

 Dehydration

0.275

0.127

0.032

  1. Dependent variable = Natural logarithm of total cost of illness of diarrhea
  2. Adjusted R2 = 0.773 (R2 = 0.778)
  3. MFP “Mutuelle de la Fonction Publique”, a health insurance scheme for civil servants, Ref reference
  4. A p-value < 0.05 was used as statistical significance