Table 3.

Mean (± SD) number of health care visits (excluding screening visit) among all patients across the 12-month study period

	Health care visits per patient
Visits between 6 months prior to baseline and baseline (n = 552), physician-reported; 6 months of retrospective data
Primary care physician visits	1.42 ± 2.14
Specialist visits	1.11 ± 1.92
Emergency room visits	0.07 ± 0.29
Hospitalizations	0.03 ± 0.17
Visits between baseline and 3-month follow-up (n = 451), patient-reported; 3 months of prospective data
Primary care physician visits	0.95 ± 1.23
Specialist visits	0.62 ± 1.11
Emergency room visits	0.15 ± 0.62
Outpatient hospital visits	0.14 ± 0.57
Inpatient hospitalizations	0.07 ± 0.44
Visits between 3- and 6-month follow-up (n = 404), patient-reported; 3 months of prospective data
Primary care physician visits	0.82 ± 1.36
Specialist visits	0.43 ± 0.97
Emergency room visits	0.11 ± 0.48
Outpatient hospital visits	0.14 ± 0.58
Inpatient hospitalizations	0.02 ± 0.17

Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.