Disparities in end-of-life care, expenditures, and place of death by health insurance among cancer patients in China: a population-based, retrospective study

Table 3 Marginal effect estimates for the health insurance schemes

Variable	OS	ED	IS	EOL expenditures	POD
Variable	Estimates (95% CI)
NRCMS (vs. URBMI)	−0.80 (−1.77, 0.16)	0.22 (− 0.13,0.58)	1.01 (0.38, 1.64) **	15,721.8 (4685.3, 26,758.3) **	0.44 (0.29, 0.58) ***
UEBMI (vs. URBMI)	1.90 (1.04, 2.76) ***	2.15 (1.81–2.48) ***	0.71 (0.20, 1.22) **	43,241.2 (31,914.1, 54,568.4) ***	0.67 (0.57, 0.78) ***
UEBMI (vs. NRCMS)	2.71 (1.98, 3.43) ***	1.92 (1.59, 2.26) ***	−0.30 (− 0.82, 0.22)	27,519.5 (13,978.6, 41,060.3) ***	0.23 (0.11, 0.36) ***

NRCMS New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme; UEBMI Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance; URBMI Urban Resident-based Basic Medical Insurance; EOL End of life; OS Outpatient services; ED Emergency department; IS Inpatient services; POD Place of death. *, P < 0.05: **P < 0.01; *** P < 0.001

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