Caesarean section rate and cost control effectiveness of case payment reform in the new cooperative medical scheme for delivery: evidence from Xi County, China

Table 3 Multivariate linear regressions on total medical cost in Xi County

	Factor		B	S.E.^a	Beta^b	t	p-value^b
Model 1 (CS)	Constant		578.684	41.200		14.046	< 0.001
	Age		3.496	1.049	0.024	3.332	< 0.001
	CPR	pre-CPR^c
		post-CPR	−21.090	11.715	−0.014	−1.800	0.072
	LOS		4.924	0.929	0.039	5.298	< 0.001
	Hospital type	Township hospital^c
		County hospital	1617.581	16.538	0.761	97.811	< 0.001
	R²		0.566
Model 2 (VD)	Constant		− 215.343	22.027		−9.776	< 0.001
	Age		−5.800	0.652	−0.044	−8.895	< 0.001
	CPR	pre-CPR^c
		post-CPR	405.942	6.309	0.322	64.343	< 0.001
	LOS		1.446	0.432	0.017	3.349	< 0.001
	Hospital type	Township hospital^c
		County hospital	895.982	7.431	0.606	120.567	< 0.001
	R²		0.518
Model 3 (total)	Constant		−493.046	20.014		−24.635	< 0.001
	Age		−2.474	0.577	−0.010	−4.289	< 0.001
	CPR	pre-CPR^c
		post-CPR	315.185	5.779	0.128	54.540	< 0.001
	LOS		2.610	0.413	0.015	6.325	< 0.001
	Hospital type	Township hospital^c
		County hospital	1030.098	7.131	0.341	144.457	< 0.001
	Delivery type	VD^c
		CS	2130.934	6.317	0.793	337.314	< 0.001
	R²		0.853

^aS.E. = Standard Error
^bα = 0.05
^cReference group of categorical predictor variables in multivariate linear regressions

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