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Table 4 Fitted explanatory model of patient/family expenditure (natural log form of total patient and family expenditure, MYR)

From: Economic burden in the management of transfusion-dependent thalassaemia patients in Malaysia from a societal perspective

Variables

Unstandardized coefficient

t

Sig

B

Standard error

Constant

6.654

0.096

69.011

 < 0.001

Income category

0.272

0.020

13.264

 < 0.001

No. of hospital visits per month

0.294

0.031

9.511

 < 0.001

Regime with DFO

0.262

0.065

4.027

 < 0.001

Years of blood transfusion

0.009

0.003

2.708

0.007

  1. MLR*: (F (4, 300) = 72.67, p < 0.001) with an R2 of 0.492 (adjusted R2 = 0.485)
  2. *Multiple linear regressions