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Abstract

Costs registered for veterinary care in non-racing horses, with complete insurance at a Swedish insurance company covering > 30% of the Swedish horse population, were studied over time (1997-2004). Associations with gender, age, breed group, geographical location and life-insurance value were studied. The univariable focus was on yearly costs per case and per horse-year at risk (HYAR). Tobit regression was used to assess the yearly relationship between the log-transformed costs and breed, gender, age, geographical location and life-insurance value, censoring the data at the deductible level. Poisson regression was used analogously, but with number of reimbursed cases as the outcome and including the log of HYAR as offset. The total population was 141,552 horses contributing a total time at risk of 498,119 HYAR, on average 62,265 per year. In total ~37,000 horses had insurance claims. The incidence rates in the years 1997, 2000 and 2004 were 1227, 1282 and 1080 claimed horses per 10,000 HYAR. Costs per claimed horse increased from 4905 SEK in 1997 to 7805 SEK in 2004, compared to costs per HYAR of 571 SEK and 805 SEK for the same years, respectively. The difference in SEK per HYAR between sub-categories was largest for life-insurance value (

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Title: Proc. Soc. Vet. Epid. Prev. Med

Conference

Soc. Vet. Epid. Prev. Med

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UKÄ Subject classification

Animal and Dairy Science
Veterinary Science

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/18530