Analysing and quantifying the effect of predictors of stroke direct costs in South Africa using quantile regression

Table 2 Direct costs of stroke in South Africa for the period 2014–2018 (Costs in South African Rands)

Cost items	N	Estimated cost	%	Average cost	Skewness coefficient
Medication cost	35,730	2,346,747,100	32	65,680.02	1.178
Physiotherapy cost	35,730	2,348,398,831	32	65,726.25	2.096
Speech-therapy cost	35,730	1,175,724,668	16	32,905.81	2.191
Outpatient cost	35,730	1,206,290,175	16	33,761.27	0.837
Inpatient cost	35,730	2,594,616,496	35	72,617.31	1.907
Total direct costs	35,730	7,347,348,497,641		205,282.67

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