Table 6.

Predicted Numbers of Hospital and Office Visits per Week at Each Level of Hospitalist Use (Weighted N = 97,355)

Percentage of hospitalized patients treated by a hospitalist	Number of hospital visits per week			Number of office and outpatient clinic visits per week
	Predicted mean*	Difference†	p value	Predicted mean*	Difference†	p value
0 %	15.58	(ref)		86.98	(ref)
1–25 % (low)	10.99	−4.59	< 0.001	88.52	1.54	0.71
26–75 % (medium)	6.58	−9.00	< 0.001	90.64	3.66	0.42
76–100 % (high)	2.71	−12.88	< 0.001	95.82	8.84	0.05

*We calculated the predicted numbers of hospital and office visits at each level of hospitalist use by holding all other variables at their means

†Over the predicted mean number of visits for physicians who did not use hospitalists (0 %)