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Table 5 Five generalized linear models of the cost of cancer for the first 12-months1

From: Correction to: CancerCostMod: a model of the healthcare expenditure, patient resource use, and patient co-payment costs for Australian cancer patients

 

Hospital episodes2

ED presentations

MBS rebate3

PBS rebates

Patient co-payment4

Ratio

Estimate (SE)

Ratio

Estimate (SE)

Ratio

Estimate (SE)

Ratio

Estimate (SE)

Ratio

Estimate (SE)

Intercept

 

8.5519 (0.0483) ***

–

5.4363 (0.0728) ***

–

5.7499 (0.0382) ***

–

6.8536 (0.0721) ***

–

4.7398 (0.0593) ***

Age

1.01

0.0062 (0.0005) ***

1.01

0.0103 (0.0008) ***

1.00

−0.0021 (0.0004) ***

0.99

−0.0109 (0.0008) ***

1.00

0.0033 (0.0006) ***

Female

0.88

−0.1267 (0.0167) ***

0.95

−0.0537 (0.0262) *

0.95

−0.0551 (0.0129) ***

0.85

−0.1597 (0.0234) ***

0.98

−0.0214 (0.0192)

Indigenous Australians

1.02

0.0220 (0.0525)

1.23

0.2095 (0.0752) **

0.92

−0.0888 (0.0402) *

0.82

−0.1928 (0.0735) **

0.39

−0.9315 (0.0619) ***

Inner and outer regional area

1.04

0.0364 (0.0165) *

1.02

0.0196 (0.0275)

0.99

−0.0138 (0.0126)

1.04

0.0366 (0.0231)

0.94

−0.0571 (0.0189) **

Remote and very remote area

1.10

0.0947 (0.0268) ***

1.03

0.0322 (0.0454)

0.90

−0.1092 (0.0207) ***

1.10

0.0912 (0.0381) *

0.98

−0.0219 (0.0311)

IRSD5 Q2

1.02

0.0214 (0.0373)

1.00

0.0004 (0.0626)

1.07

0.0675 (0.0289) *

1.05

0.0474 (0.0519)

1.00

−0.0026 (0.0432)

IRSD5 Q3

0.98

−0.0232 (0.0279)

1.01

0.0097 (0.0420)

1.08

0.0805 (0.0216) ***

1.11

0.1053 (0.0389) **

1.00

−0.0020 (0.0324)

IRSD5 Q4

0.95

−0.0510 (0.0250) *

0.98

−0.0215 (0.0368)

1.18

0.1642 (0.0193) ***

1.17

0.1582 (0.0348) ***

1.23

0.2033 (0.0289) ***

IRSD5 Q5 (least disadvantaged)

0.93

−0.0700 (0.0293) *

0.94

−0.0603 (0.0467)

1.00

0.0016 (0.0226)

1.19

0.1703 (0.0411) ***

1.32

0.2746 (0.0338) ***

  1. *p-value < 0.05
  2. **p-value < 0.01
  3. ***p-value < 0.001
  4. 1Adjusted for age at diagnosis, sex, Indigenous status, rurality, IRSD quintiles, and broad cancer type
  5. 2Admitted and non-admitted hospital episodes
  6. 3MBS rebate, excluding items included as non-admitted hospital episodes
  7. 4MBS and PBS co-payment is the cost to the patient
  8. 5Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage