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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: Forum Health Econ Policy. 2008;11(2):2. doi: 10.2202/1558-9544.1088

Table 4.

Estimates from conditional logit models of hospital choice

Baseline Model
Transplant recipients only
Variable Quality Distance Quality Distance
Level 3.258 (1.190)* −0.021 (0.000)* −0.187 (1.740) −0.021 (0.000)*
×Age −0.011 (0.015) −0.009 (0.001)* −0.005 (0.019) −0.007 (0.001)*
×Male −0.004 (0.322) −0.023 (0.018) −0.145 (0.454) −0.017 (0.028)
×White 1.420 (0.336)* −0.025 (0.019) 1.135 (0.463)* −0.076 (0.029)*
×On dialysis −0.123 (0.469) −0.038 (0.023) −1.010 (0.617) −0.014 (0.033)
×Living donor −0.435 (0.503) −0.060 (0.028)* −0.565 (0.526) 0.126 (0.031)*
×Diabetic −0.212 (0.354) −0.038 (0.021) −0.705 (0.512) −0.114 (0.033)*
×Cardiac condition −0.474 (0.406) −0.116 (0.025)* −0.262 (0.612) −0.113 (0.041)*
×ADL limitation −5.303 (0.653)* −0.124 (0.044)* −3.461 (0.994)* −0.137 (0.071)
×Survive >1 year -- -- 4.718 (0.719)* −0.212 (0.042)*
×Education: HS degree −1.339 (0.789) −0.324 (0.032)* −0.942 (1.089) −0.415 (0.050)*
×Education: College degree 0.913 (0.898) −0.223 (0.038)* 0.685 (1.212) −0.309 (0.059)*
×Education: Unknown −0.816 (0.819) −0.337 (0.035)* −1.999 (1.131) −0.351 (0.055)*
×Employed −1.203 (0.364)* −0.132 (0.021)* −1.012 (0.504)* −0.093 (0.031)*
×Private insurance 2.609 (0.357)* 0.168 (0.020)* 2.411 (0.498)* 0.182 (0.031)*
N 33,907 18,344

Standard errors are in parentheses

*

P < 0.05.