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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 11.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatrics. 2020 Dec;146(6):e20200213. doi: 10.1542/peds.2020-0213

TABLE 3.

Comparison of Participating and Control Practice Mean Asthma-Related ED Visit Rates From Baseline and Postcollaborative Years (Main Difference-in-Differences Analysis)

Main Analysis Asthma-Related ED Visits per 100 Child-Years P 95% Confidence Interval
Lower Upper
Control 2014 16.97   11.99 21.95
Participating 2014 15.29   11.62 18.96
Control 2017 18.80   12.89 24.71
Participating 2017   9.50  7.07 11.93
Difference in differences −7.62 .002 −13.45 −1.78

Marginal rates are adjusted for patient (age, sex, and insurance) and practice (specialty, organizational structure, size, geographic region, and FQHC or RHC) characteristics and, also, for patients clustering within practices; SEs are estimated by using the δ method; Coefficients for relative rates are in Supplemental Table 6. —, not applicable.