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. 2020 Oct 7;8(4):388. doi: 10.3390/healthcare8040388

Table 5.

Differences in cost and length of stay for tube and line events (reference: without event).

Difference in cost
Multivariable Linear Regression Propensity Score Matching
Day Estimate SE p-value Estimate SE p-value
1 4542.6 696.2 <0.001 *** 3635.6 1724.2 0.037 *
2 2240.7 523.4 <0.001 *** 661.1 1077.1 0.540
3 5674.0 557.8 <0.001 *** 6089.3 1713.3 <0.001 ***
4 4444.0 668.1 <0.001 *** 4338.2 1455.5 0.003 **
5 5971.5 7434.0 <0.001 *** 7615.6 1499.9 <0.001 ***
6 5271.5 852.3 <0.001 *** 5412.0 1340.1 <0.001 ***
7 4904.4 1017.8 <0.001 *** 4270.0 1688.5 0.013 *
8 7931.8 1273.7 <0.001 *** 7938.6 2887.5 0.007 **
9 4274.4 1162.5 <0.001 *** 6694.3 1577.1 <0.001 ***
10 5800.8 1330.0 <0.001 *** 5261.5 2161.1 0.016 *
11 2991.8 1599.4 0.061 4146.0 2402.0 0.088
12 5280.6 1618.6 0.001 ** 5517.8 3064.2 0.075
13 6325.1 1612.8 <0.001 *** 7702.8 2409.3 0.002 **
14 5332.0 1739.4 0.002 ** 5330.3 2470.4 0.034 *
Difference in length of stay
Multivariable Linear Regression Propensity Score Matching
Day Estimate SE p-value Estimate SE p-value
1 8.5 1.6 <0.001 *** 5.5 3.2 0.094
2 7.9 1.2 <0.001 *** 5.3 2.7 0.051
3 11.0 1.3 <0.001 *** 13.3 2.8 <0.001 ***
4 8.2 1.5 <0.001 *** 8.9 3.3 0.008 **
5 8.3 1.7 <0.001 *** 11.2 2.2 <0.001 ***
6 10.6 1.9 <0.001 *** 11.8 3.2 <0.001 ***
7 9.4 2.3 <0.001 *** 6.3 4.3 0.147
8 11.5 2.9 <0.001 *** 11.6 4.4 0.010 *
9 13.5 2.6 <0.001 *** 19.8 4.1 <0.001 ***
10 7.6 3.0 0.011 * 7.5 4.1 0.066
11 1.3 3.6 0.726 2.7 3.6 0.464
12 8.6 3.6 0.018 * 10.7 5.2 0.041 *
13 10.9 3.6 0.003 ** 13.0 4.7 0.007 **
14 8.7 3.9 0.025 10.9 5.2 0.039 *

* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001.