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. 2011 Jun 22;13(6):769–776. doi: 10.1007/s10198-011-0330-2

Table 4.

Effects of complementary care on mortality

Dummy for GP-CAM anthroposophy Dummy for GP-CAM homeopathy Dummy for GP-CAM acupuncture Combined
Logit with fixed effects 0.031 −0.198 −0.333* −0.128
LPM with fixed effects −0.005* −0.004 −0.009** −0.006***
Women
Logit with fixed effects 0.034 0.010 −0.203 −0.031
LPM with fixed effects −0.007* 0.004 −0.008 −0.005*
Men
Logit with fixed effects 0.020 −0.627* −0.493 −0.291*
LPM with fixed effects −0.003 −0.014 −0.013** −0.008**

Dependent variable: death in 2006, 2007, 2008, or 2009

The table is based on models with the following explanatory variables: gender, age, dummies for anthroposophy, homeopathy, and acupuncture (dummy for complementary in the last column); the table reports the coefficients on the latter dummies

LPM regression controls for 4-digit insuree postcode fixed effects

***, **, * indicate a statistical significance at the 1, 5, and 10% level, respectively