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. 2017 Mar 7;12(3):e0172204. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172204

Table 7. Determinants of the total cost. Regression analysis of total annual costs of care (GLM model with log link).

  Observed Bootstrap     95% Conf. Interval
Depvar: Total Cost Coef. Std. Err. Z P>z Lower Upper
Patient's Age -0.002 0.004 -0.34 0.731 -0.010 0.007
Patient Male = 1 0.110 0.095 1.16 0.247 -0.076 0.297
ZBIi 0.004 0.003 1.47 0.141 -0.001 0.010
NPI-Qii 0.033 0.015 2.18 0.029 0.003 0.062
ADLQiii 0.013 0.003 4.93 0.000 0.008 0.018
Paid caregiver iv -0.132 0.114 -1.16 0.248 -0.356 0.092
SES1v 0.138 0.166 0.83 0.404 -0.187 0.464
SES2v 0.147 0.167 0.89 0.376 -0.179 0.474
SES3v 0.067 0.207 0.33 0.744 -0.338 0.473
Constant 11.816 0.377 31.36 0.000 11.078 12.555
N of Observations 306

Notes

i Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI).

ii Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q).

iiiActivities of Daily Life Questionnaire (ADLQ).

iv Availability of a paid caregiver.

v SESD 1–3 are indicator variables for SES levels 1,2 and 3, respectively. SESD 4 is omitted. Bootstrap standard errors with 1,000 replications.