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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2013 Oct 7;47(6):1116–1120. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.08.007

Table 2.

Health Care Cost and Utilization

One-Year Outcomes, Starting
Post-Hospital Discharge		 Without
Feeding Tube		 With Feeding
Tube		 Difference 95%C.I.
Entire Study Sample N = 1924 N = 1924
Inpatient Costs $7967.21 $10,190.60 $2223.39 $1513.58, $2933.21
Hospitalizations 0.97 1.02 0.05 −0.01, 0.11
Hospital Days 7.02 8.73 1.71 1.06, 2.36
ICU Days 1.29 1.92 0.63 0.34, 0.92
Subsample of Those Who
Died Within One Year of
Hospital Discharge		 N = 2736 N =1261
Inpatient Costs $7570.17 $10,607.16 $3036.99 $2161.03, $3912.95
Hospitalizations 0.91 1.01 0.10 0.03, 0.18
Hospital Days 6.79 9.08 2.29 1.45, 3.13
ICU Days 1.19 2.27 1.08 0.69, 1.47

ICU = intensive care unit.