Health care utilization for patients with stroke: a 3-year cross-sectional study of China’s two urban health insurance schemes across four cities

Table 5 The impact of insurance type and city on patients’ health care utilization

Characteristics	Outpatient visit		Inpatient visit		ALOS
Characteristics	Coef.	95%CI	Coef.	95%CI	Coef.	95%CI
Insurance type (Ref: UEBMI)
URBMI	−0.122^***	[−0.144, −0.100]	−0.041^*	[−0.050, −0.032]	−0.270 *	[−0.288, −0.251]
Cities (Ref: Beijing)
Shanghai	−0.054	[− 0.121, 0.018]	0.122^***	[0.097, 0.147]	0.278 ^***	[0.223, 0.335]
Tianjin	−0.280^***	[−0.294, − 0.267]	0.025^***	[0.007, 0.043]	− 0.155 ^***	[− 0.184, − 0.125]
Chongqing	−0.664^***	[− 0.672, − 0.649]	−0.130^***	[− 0.144, − 0.115]	−0.342 ^***	[− 0.366, − 0.318]
R² (adjusted)	0.189		0.100		0.130

All models were adjusted for gender, age, stroke type and year; All coefficients and 95% CI were transformed using formula Coef. = e^β − 1
ALOS average length of stay
^***P < 0.001, ^**P < 0.01, ^*P < 0.05

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