Research Article

Health Insurance Ownership and Quality of Computed Tomography Requests: Experience from a Peripheral Referral Hospital in Cameroon

Table 4

Summary analysis of the relationship between CT request appropriateness and health insurance ownership.

CT appropriateness, n (%; 95% CI)Total, n (%)
Category CCategories A and B merged

No health insurance ownership22 (7.01; 4.2 – 9.8)292 (92.99; 90.2 – 95.8)314 (100)
Health insurance ownership7 (18.42; 6.1 – 30.7)31 (81.58; 69.3 – 93.9)38 (100)
Total29 (8.24; 5.4 – 11.1)323 (91.76; 88.9 – 94.6)352 (100)

χ2 = 5.84; . Category C corresponds to inappropriate CT requests.