Patient-related healthcare costs for diarrhoea, Guillain Barré syndrome and invasive non-typhoidal salmonellosis in Gondar, Ethiopia, 2020

Table 4 Linear regression results of healthcare facility type, severity of dehydration, sex, age group and living area on each type of the transformed direct medical costs of patients with diarrhoea from three healthcare facility types in Gondar, Ethiopia, in 2020

	Log₁₀(Total costs)		Log₁₀(Stay costs)^a		Log₁₀(Drug costs)		(Diagnostic test costs)^0.5		(Special services costs)^0.75
Variable ^b	β^c	p	β^c	P	β^c	P	β^c	p	β^c	p
Constant		0.000		0.000		0.000		0.000		0.000
Health centre	-0.408	0.000	-0.286	0.000	0.042	0.435	-0.689	0.000	-0.157	0.002
Private clinic	0.081	0.093	0.614	0.000	-0.063	0.241	-0.135	0.001	0.115	0.025
No dehydration	-0.192	0.072	0.087	0.272	-0.083	0.484	-0.027	0.771	-0.427	0.000
Some dehydration	-0.189	0.075	0.067	0.396	-0.146	0.214	-0.147	0.111	-0.242	0.030
Female	0.030	0.513	-0.002	0.952	0.043	0.401	0.000	0.991	-0.003	0.956
5 years or older	-0.053	0.249	0.018	0.594	-0.126	0.013	0.052	0.189	-0.020	0.681
Rural living area	0.062	0.167	0.048	0.155	0.046	0.359	0.091	0.019	-0.011	0.825
Adjusted R Square	0.200		0.559		0.014		0.402		0.115
F-value	15.470		74.324		1.818		39.859		8.488
p	0.000		0.000		0.082		0.000		0.000

^aOnly out-of-pocket costs patients had to pay themselves for each day they stayed in the healthcare facility. These do not cover total costs for a hospital day
^bSpecialised hospital, severe dehydration, male, under 5 years and urban living area were baseline dummies
^cStandardized coefficient

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