Table 10 Sensitivity analyses of determinants of healthcare costs for paediatric febrile episodes
|  | β (base-case)# | β (bootstrapped) | Minimum β (% lower)# | Maximum β (% higher)# | Statistically significant* (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0–3 months | 3.543 | 3.11 | 2.16 (39.02%) | 3.92 (10.69%) | 100 |
0–6 months | 2.207 | 2.08 | 1.45 (34.39%) | 2.68 (21.55%) | 100 |
6–12 months | 1.186 | 1.27 | 1.00 (15.75%) | 1.54 (29.84%) | 38.38 |
3–6 years | 0.848 | 0.88 | 0.68 (19.3%) | 0.98 (15.77%) | 19.19 |
6–10 years | 0.954 | 1.00 | 0.74 (22.39%) | 1.18 (23.63%) | 0 |
10–16 years | 1.927 | 1.81 | 1.25 (35.27%) | 2.10 (8.98%) | 100 |
Gender (male) | 0.849 | 0.90 | 0.78 (7.91%) | 0.99 (16.64%) | 8.08 |
Time (book-in to triage) | 0.994 | 1.00 | 0.99 (0.24%) | 1.00 (0.65%) | 16.16 |
NICE HR | 1.034 | 1.03 | 0.89 (14.04%) | 1.12 (8.75%) | 0 |
NICE RR | 1.721 | 1.65 | 1.19 (30.71%) | 1.99 (15.60%) | 100 |
Time (triage to call in) | 0.999 | 1.00 | 1.00 (0.14%) | 1.00 (0.13%) | 3.03 |
APNP | 0.573 | 0.69 | 0.37 (36.23%) | 0.99 (72.91%) | 28.28 |
FY1/FY2 | 3.193 | 3.29 | 1.98 (37.94%) | 4.06 (27.11%) | 100 |
ST1-3 | 0.851 | 0.90 | 0.72 (15.88%) | 1.01 (18.17%) | 0 |
REG | 0.933 | 1.00 | 0.76 (19.02%) | 1.12 (20.10%) | 0 |
After hours | 1.159 | 1.19 | 0.90 (21.98%) | 1.47 (26.54%) | 2.02 |
Winter | 0.806 | 0.79 | 0.68 (15.08%) | 0.89 (10.11%) | 98.99 |
MTS yellow | 2.382 | 2.27 | 1.77 (25.67%) | 2.61 (9.59%) | 100 |
MTS orange | 2.857 | 2.89 | 2.23 (22.08%) | 3.21 (12.43%) | 100 |
MTS red | 2.992 | 4.52 | 1.95 (34.80%) | 6.87 (129.76%) | 100 |
Constant | 164.8 | 143.50 | 90.33 (45.19%) | 179.37 (8.84%) | 100 |