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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuromodulation. 2016 Feb 29;19(5):469–476. doi: 10.1111/ner.12389

Table 2.

Results of logistic regressions showing the odds of being in the high HCU group vs. the low HCU group with one additional year of pain-to-SCS procedure time.

Variable Low Utilization High Utilization Odds Ratio [95% CI] P Value
Inpatient & outpatient medical expenditures $0 - 603 $4,133 - 359,084 1.33 [1.01, 1.77] 0.047
Pharmaceutical payments $0 - 33 $482 - 15,154 1.35 [1.04, 1.75] 0.023
Opioid payments $0 - 5 $186 - 15,154 1.43 [1.10, 1.85] 0.0072
Opioid prescriptions filled 0 - 1 10 - 58 1.39 [1.09, 1.78] 0.0091
Office visits 0 - 2 8 - 77 1.44 [1.12, 1.85] 0.0049
Hospitalizations 0 3 - 28 1.55 [1.19, 2.03] 0.0012
ER visits 0 1 - 6 1.07 [0.79, 1.44] 0.66
Pain injections 0 1 - 9 1.10 [0.85, 1.43] 0.48