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Table 3 Factors associated with time spent in the medications request for PsA at Belo Horizonte health region

From: Access to high-cost medications for psoriatic arthritis in the National Health System in Brazil: the long path up to dispensation

Linear Regression

Simple

Multiple

Explanatory Variables

β (CI 95%)

P-value

β (CI 95%)

P-value

Proximal variables

 Establishment

 

0,0387

 

  Private Practice

Reference

 

Reference

 

  Hospital

10.72 (− 4.88; 26.33)

0.177

6.91 (− 6.13; 19.95)

0.297

  Clinics/Centers

32.44 (10.11; 54.78)

0.005

22.35 (3.74; 40.97)

0.019

  Other

12.11 (− 14.00; 38.23)

0.361

17.38 (− 4.39; 39.15)

0.117

 Process Status

 

<  0.001

 

<  0.001

  Accepted

Reference

 

Reference

 

  Dismissed

197.00 (150.59; 243.41)

 

181.08 (135.79; 226.38)

 

 Medical Specialty

 

<  0.001

 

  Rheumatology

Reference

 

Reference

 

  Dermatology

38.12 (21.01; 55.23)

<  0.001

28.29 (13.17; 43.41)

<  0.001

  Clinical Medicine

16.13 (− 10.76; 43.03)

0.238

13.87 (− 9.51; 37.25)

0.243

Distal variable

 Persistence along 12 months

  Persistent

Reference

 

  Non persistent

15.73 (29.14; 2.33)

0.022

  1. Proximal variable = cross-sectional variables, collected in the administrative processes
  2. Distal variables = longitudinal variable, collected after 12 months in the information systems
  3. Bold: p-value < 0.05