Table 3.
Follow-up Utilization per Month
| Intervention (n = 170) |
Usual Care (n = 126) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Mean (SD) | No. (%) With Any Stays or Visits | Mean (SD) | No. (%) With Any Stays or Visits | Wilcoxon P Value |
|
Inpatient utilization per month, No. of nights | |||||
| Hospitalizations | 0.10 (0.22) | 53 (31.2) | 0.15 (0.42) | 41 (32.5) | .78 |
| Nursing home stays | 1.17 (4.68) | 24 (14.1) | 1.00 (4.33) | 16 (12.7) | .72 |
| Hospice stays | 0.01 (0.02) | 1 (0.6) | 0.03 (0.34) | 1 (0.8) | .83 |
| Stays in assisted living facilities | 3.19 (8.37) | 27 (15.9) | 4.05 (9.14) | 29 (23.0) | .15 |
|
Outpatient utilization per month | |||||
| Physician visits, including geriatricians, family physicians or general internal medicine physicians, neurologists, psychiatrists, and other specialty physicians | 0.60 (0.51) | 166 (97.6) | 0.52 (0.47) | 118 (93.7) | .10 |
| Other healthcare professional visits, not physicians | 0.29 (0.62) | 118 (69.4) | 0.23 (0.50) | 88 (69.8) | .61 |
| Podiatrist visits | 0.06 (0.13) | 45 (26.5) | 0.07 (0.27) | 43 (34.1) | .26 |
| Emergency department visits | 0.08 (0.11) | 96 (56.5) | 0.07 (0.10) | 66 (52.4) | .63 |
|
Healthcare in the home per month | |||||
| Home nurse visits | 0.10 (0.41) | 27 (15.9) | 0.28 (1.82) | 24 (19.0) | .44 |
| Home health aide visits | 1.38 (4.73) | 38 (22.4) | 0.76 (3.42) | 19 (15.1) | .11 |
| Home physical therapy, occupational therapy, or speech therapy visits in past 6 mo | 0.04 (0.32) | 9 (5.3) | 0.03 (0.19) | 9 (7.1) | .51 |
| Adult day care hours | 3.86 (14.63) | 25 (14.7) | 1.42 (7.52) | 12 (9.5) | .17 |
| Delivered meals | 0.89 (5.19) | 15 (8.8) | 1.56 (7.72) | 11 (8.7) | .99 |
|
Informal caregiving hours per month | |||||
| Paid unskilled | 18.4 (62.4) | 35 (20.6) | 16.5 (42.8) | 25 (19.8) | .97 |
| Unpaid unskilled | 326.4 (271.8) | 170 (100.0) | 323.0 (294.1) | 126 (100.0) | .64 |