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Table 3 OLS and IV analysis of location type and length of stay

From: Total healthcare costs of deinstitutionalized long-term care provision in the Netherlands: an instrumental variable analysis

Length of stay

Length of stay in the year after admission (days)

Length of stay in the two years after admission (days)

OLS

IV

OLS

IV

Intercept

276.124* (10.444)

276.714* (12.853)

585.927* (24.559)

585.070* (30.269)

Location type (0 = institutional; 1 = SHNH)

− 6.698* (1.914)

− 67.514* (132.176)

− 11.759* (4.500)

76.542 (312.897)

Sex (0 = male; 1 = female)

21.739* (1.914)

22.370* (1.832)

60.630* (1.777)

59.714* (3.996)

Age (year move to NH)

− 1.254* (0.041)

− 1.240* (0.052)

− 4.313* (0.097)

− 4.332* (0.121)

Income (year move to NH) in €

0.001* (0.001)

0.001* (0.001)

0.002* (0.001)

0.002* (0.001)

Case severity (ZZP) 5 (year move to NH, ref = ZZP 4)

− 14.895* (1.068)

− 14.627* (1.144)

− 53.325* (2.510)

− 53.714* (2.815)

Case severity (ZZP) 6 (year move to NH, ref = ZZP 4)

− 27.198* (1.201)

− 28.287* (2.632)

− 78.393* (2.824)

− 76.813* (6.262)

Case severity (ZZP) 7 (year move to NH, ref = ZZP 4)

− 7.870* (1.870)

− 9.021* (3.010)

− 47.284* (4.396)

− 45.613* (7.182)

Case severity (ZZP) 8 (year move to NH, ref = ZZP 4)

− 16.513* (3.094)

− 17.716* (4.065)

− 58.896* (7.276)

− 57.150* (9.680)

Costs in year 2016 (0 = no; 1 = yes)

− 9.100 (9.820)

− 12.571 (14.504)

− 33.659 (23.092)

− 28.619 (34.130)

Costs in year 2017 (0 = no; 1 = yes)

45.327* (1.165)

46.306* (2.451)

76.322* (2.740)

74.900* (5.595)

Costs in year 2018 (0 = no; 1 = yes)

87.904* (0.842)

88.472* (1.623)

253.611* (1.980)

252.785* (3.654)

Postestimation tests

 Weak instruments (F-statistic)

 

28.235*

 

28.230*

 Wu-Hausman

 

0.214

 

0.080

  1. OLS ordinary least squares regression, IV instrumental variable analysis, NH nursing home, SHNH Small-scale homelike nursing home
  2. Values marked with * are significant at p < 0.05