Table 5.

Effect of VAS on postoperative outcomes (tertiary care facilities)

			Marginal effects from logit regressions (%)
Quality of outcomes	Non-VAS (%)	VAS (%)	No controls	Controls for illness composition	Controls for illness composition and demographic characteristics
Occurrence of infections	7.70	0.90	−6.74** (−13.1 to 0.36)	−8.04 (−17.8 to 0.17)	−9.4* (−20.2 to 1.4)
Been rehospitalised since the first hospitalisation	32.60	16.80	−15.8*** (−27.7 to −3.9)	−16.0*** (−27.4 to −4.6)	−16.5*** (−28.7 to −4.3)

N=199.

Marginal effects and SEs estimated using the delta method.

CIs in parentheses.

Demographics=age, gender, income and literacy.

VAS, Vajpayee Arogyashree Scheme.