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Table 1 Parameter estimates for Model 1: Treatment Type; Model 2: Demographic Factors

From: Assessing key cost drivers associated with caring for chronic kidney disease patients

 

Parameter

Estimate

Standard Error

P-value

Model 1

Intercept

10.05

0.20

<.0001

Transplant

−0.44

0.20

0.0267

Dialysis

0.53

0.17

0.0017

Model 2

Intercept

9.52

0.14

<.0001

Black

0.47

0.17

0.0062

Low Income

0.34

0.18

0.0570

  1. Model 1: The reference group is Non-dialysis Dependent- CKD patients (NDD-CKD)
  2. Model 2 Reference Groups: The reference group is non-black. Note that this group comprised primarily of white individuals. Since there were very few records corresponding to other ethnicities in the sample, it was appropriate to collapse them into the reference group. For the income variable, High income is the reference group