Table 2 |
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| All-cause health care resource use among patients with HCV and ALD (cases) and matched patients with HCV and no ALD (comparison) | ||||
| Patients with HCV and ALD (Cases) | Patients with HCV and without ALD (Comparison) | Difference | P-value1 | |
| N | 1,193 | 1,193 | ||
| Inpatient | ||||
| Percent with ≥1 hospitalization (1 yr follow-up) | 73.6% | 27.1% | 46.5% | < .001 |
| Hospital admissions (PPPM) | < .001 | |||
| Mean | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
| SD | 0.4 | 0.1 | ||
| Median | 0.2 | 0.0 | ||
| Hospital days (PPPM) | < .001 | |||
| Mean | 1.9 | 0.3 | 1.6 | |
| SD | 2.9 | 0.8 | ||
| Median | 0.7 | 0.0 | ||
| Outpatient Services2 | ||||
| Percent with ≥1 outpatient service (1 yr follow-up) | 99.2% | 96.1% | 3.1% | < .001 |
| Outpatient office/clinic services (PPPM) | < .001 | |||
| Mean | 19.4 | 4.1 | 15.3 | |
| SD | 24.2 | 4.7 | ||
| Median | 10.4 | 2.6 | ||
| Pharmacy | ||||
| Percent with ≥1 medication dispensed (1 yr follow-up) | 89.8% | 92.0% | −2.2% | 0.064 |
| Medications dispensed (PPPM) | 0.010 | |||
| Mean | 5.8 | 5.4 | 0.4 | |
| SD | 4.5 | 4.3 | ||
| Median | 5.2 | 4.6 | ||
| Other Services3 | ||||
| Percent with at least 1 other resource use claim | 91.3% | 88.4% | 2.9% | 0.025 |
Source: Florida Medicaid database: claims with dates of service between July 1, 1998 and June 30, 2008.
Notes: Percentages are those with the resource use of interest at any time during the year.
1 Calculated with the Fisher Exact 2-tailed test used for comparison of proportions, and the Wilcoxon test for comparison of means.
2 Patients may have received multiple outpatient services on the same day, including hospital outpatient, physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, clinic, or other outpatient services.
3 "Other" services include nursing home, home health, hospice, and other services.
ALD advanced liver disease, HCV hepatitis C virus, PPPM per-patient-per-month.
Menzin et al. BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:459 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-12-459
