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Table 3 Percentage change in late-stage CRC incidence given the infinitesimal change in exposure

From: The effect of physician density on colorectal cancer stage at diagnosis: causal inference methods for spatial data applied on regional-level data

Late-stage CRC

BYM approach

NA approach

Mean coefficient

Credible interval

Mean coefficient

Credible interval

Model 1 (total physicians)

−0.027

(−0.078 to 0.020)

−0.028

(−0.055 to −0.001)

Model 2 (GPs)

−0.025

(−0.070 to 0.018)

−0.037

(−0.064 to −0.008)

Model 3 (specialists)

−0.001

(−0.004 to 0.040)

−0.007

(−0.031 to 0.017)

  1. Significant results according to 95% credible interval are shown in bold
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International Journal of Health Geographics

ISSN: 1476-072X