Table 6.

Multiple linear regression analysis of the cost

Variables	β	SE	P-Value
Constant health facility type (ref: health center)	8.991	0161	< 0.001
Hospital	0.907	0.16	< 0.001
Patient type (ref: outpatient)
Inpatient	1.28	0.17	< 0.001
Antibiotics use (ref: No use)
Use	0.451	0.138	< 0.001
Episode before consultation (ref: episode ≤2 days)
Episode> 2 days	0.285	0.092	0.002
Insurance scheme (ref: free health care scheme)
MFP	0.589	0.182	0.002
Complication with diarrhea (ref: no dehydration)
Dehydration	0.275	0.127	0.032

Dependent variable = Natural logarithm of total cost of illness of diarrhea

Adjusted R² = 0.773 (R² = 0.778)

MFP “Mutuelle de la Fonction Publique”, a health insurance scheme for civil servants, Ref reference

A p-value < 0.05 was used as statistical significance