Table 2.
Health Care Service Use and Health Status During the Baseline Year and Follow-up Among Persons Completing the Followup Survey.a
| Patient Characteristics | Timing of MilwaukeeCares Enrollment
|
Pb | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immediate
|
Delayed
|
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| Baseline (%) | Follow-up (%) | Baseline (%) | Follow-up (%) | ||
| Hospitalized in past 12 months | —c | ||||
| Yes | 14.0 | 8.0 | 11.5 | 2.7 | |
| No | 86.0 | 92.0 | 88.5 | 97.3 | |
| 1+ Emergency room visit in past 12 months | .84 | ||||
| Yes | 28.6 | 17.4 | 38.1 | 22.7 | |
| No | 71.4 | 82.6 | 61.9 | 87.3 | |
| Office visits in past 12 months | .92 | ||||
| None | 11.4 | 8.2 | 14.7 | 12.5 | |
| 1 | 20.5 | 18.1 | 26.9 | 27.6 | |
| 2–3 | 30.0 | 35.7 | 34.7 | 31.5 | |
| 4–9 | 25.5 | 29.9 | 17.3 | 27.1 | |
| 10–12 | 12.7 | 8.2 | 6.3 | 1.3 | |
a
P values reflect comparison of immediate versus delayed access groups, using weighted results. Percentages are based on unweighted data from participants with both baseline and follow-up data.
b
Logistic regression for emergency room visits and hospitalizations, controlling for baseline use. McNemar’s test for whether or not the number of office visits increased from baseline to follow-up.
c
There were too few events to perform a valid comparison of the decrease in hospitalizations.