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

Table 5

Regression analysis of the appropriateness of CT requests.

Variables	Univariate analysis		Multivariate analysis
	Crude OR (95% CI)	value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	value
Age (years, N – 354)	1.00 (098 –  1.02)	0.827	0.98 (0.96 – 1.01)	0.222
Gender (N – 354)
Female	1		1
Male	0.53 (0.23 – 1.20)	0.129	0.72 (0.30 – 1.72)	0.461
Education (N – 288)
Completed ordinary level or less	1		1
Beyond ordinary level	0.42 (0.18 – 0.97)	0.043	0.35 (0.13 – 0.91)	0.032
Socioeconomic status (N – 352)	1.27 (0.67 – 2.38)	0.462	1.77 (0.92 – 3.43)	0.088
Health insurance (N – 352)
Yes	0.33 (0.13 – 0.84)	0.020	0.37 (0.14 – 1.01)	0.053
No	1		1
Healthcare provider (N – 344)
Specialist doctors	0.79 (0.36 – 1.78)	0.578	0.77 (0.33 – 1.78)	0.540
General physicians	1		1

Model value – 0.062; R² – 0.062; OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval.