Table 3.
Number (%) of patients reporting worse, no change, or improved outcomes based on treatment setting
|
Setting |
Symptom improvement |
Effect of treatment on recovery |
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Worse | No change | Improved | p-value | n | Worse | No change | Improved | p-value | |
| Home/nonclinical site |
1762 |
614 (35) |
418 (24) |
730 (41) |
0.3427 |
1755 |
255 (15) |
569 (32) |
931 (53) |
<0.0001 |
| Physician’s office |
1252 |
452 (36) |
306 (24) |
494 (39) |
0.4855 |
1238 |
196 (16) |
494 (40) |
548 (44) |
0.0173 |
| Hospital outpatient |
754 |
258 (34) |
139 (18) |
357 (47) |
<0.0001 |
745 |
108 (15) |
192 (26) |
445 (60) |
<0.0001 |
| Hospital inpatient |
422 |
178 (42) |
62 (15) |
182 (43) |
<0.0001 |
417 |
102 (24) |
85 (20) |
230 (55) |
<0.0001 |
| Emergency room |
303 |
134 (44) |
50 (17) |
119 (39) |
0.0002 |
292 |
84 (29) |
58 (20) |
150 (51) |
<0.0001 |
| Urgent care center | 70 | 34 (49) | 10 (14) | 26 (37) | 0.0264 | 62 | 18 (29) | 17 (27) | 27 (44) | 0.0078 |
p-values are for effect of location on outcome from Pearson’s chi-square test; specifically, the p-value for each row compares that row to the distribution in all subjects not in that row.