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. 2023 Aug 26;22:166. doi: 10.1186/s12939-023-01985-5

Table 3.

Subgroup analysis

Drug purchase 95% CI Bandwidth (Sample size) Inpatient 95% CI Bandwidth (Sample size) Outpatient 95% CI Bandwidth (Sample size)
Depression Not depression 0.276*

[-0.050,

0.602]

3.227 0.060

[-0.135,

0.257]

3.367 0.243

[-0.190,

0.676]

2.210
(0.166) (422; 649) (0.100) (432; 681) (0.221) (317; 434)
Depression 0.182

[-0.123,

0.488]

3.254 0.145

[-0.080,

0.370]

3.789 0.034

[-0.224,

0.293]

3.248
(0.156) (301; 490) (0.115) (341; 565) (0.132) (296; 470)
Self-rated Health Moderate or Healthy 0.270*

[-0.027,

0.567]

3.029 0.024

[-0.114,

0.163]

3.675 0.149

[-0.098,

0.397]

2.694
(0.152) (472; 686) (0.070) (556; 841) (0.126) (443; 575)
Bad 0.222

[-0.256,

0.701]

2.804 0.281

[-0.117,

0.680]

3.101 0.053

[-0.325,

0.432]

3.071
(0.244) (207; 327) (0.202) (214; 379) (0.193) (213; 363)
Chronic diseases No chronic diseases 0.251*

[-0.030,

0.532]

3.481 0.002

[-0.126,

0.131]

4.279 -0.029

[-0.365,

0.306]

2.295
(0.143) (442; 683) (0.066) (558; 824) (0.171) (333; 418)
Otherwise 0.162

[-0.175,

0.499]

3.097 0.180

[-0.079,

0.440]

3.593 0.156

[-0.085,

0.397]

3.960
(0.172) (285; 480) (0.132) (324; 557) (0.123) (359; 611)
Income (net of pension) Low 0.488**

[0.038,

0.937]

2.632 0.270*

[-0.143,

0.345]

3.029 0.270*

[-0.090,

0.645]

3.029
(0.229) (667; 928) (0.152) (472; 686) (0.152) (472; 686)
High -0.013

[-0.225,

0.198]

4.537 0.077

[-0.098,

0.253]

4.062 -0.026

[-0.175,

0.122]

4.629
(0.108) (514; 757) (0.089) (424; 696) (0.076) (528; 764)

Robust criteria errors for clustering to the individual level are reported in parentheses, *p < 0.1, **p < 0.05