Association between trust in the public healthcare system and selecting a surgeon in public hospitals in Israel: a cross-sectional population study

Table 6 Regression coefficients for predicting the importance of surgeon selection

Predictors		Coefficients
Predictors	β	SE	B	t	R²
First step					0.06
Gender (male)	− 0.01	0.04	− 0.01	− 0.77
Age	−0.03	0.02	−0.01	−1.89
Marital status (married)	0.07	0.05	0.05	1.45
Education	−0.01	0.01	−0.03	− 0.75
Income	0.01	0.01	0.04	0.94
Health status	−0.01	0.03	−0.01	− 0.30
Jewish sector (general)	0.32	0.06	0.26	5.43**
Jewish sector (immigrants from the former Soviet Union)	0.15	0.08	0.09	1.92
HMO (Clalit Health Services)	−0.12	0.05	−0.10	−2.42*
HMO (Maccabi Healthcare Services)	−0.12	0.06	−0.09	−2.08*
Second step
Trust	−0.14	0.04	− 0.14	−3.87**	0.13
Inequability	0.21	0.03	0.23	6.91**	0.13

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