Table 5.

Resource Use At Baseline

At Baseline (prior 3 months)	All patients (N = 60)			Dartmouth (n = 31)			UAB (n = 29)
	Mean (SD)			Mean (SD)			Mean (SD)	p	Effect size
Hospital days/month	1.44 (3.0)			1.7 (3.6)			1.17 (2.2)	0.72	0.18
ICU days/month	0.26 (1.0)			0.34 (1.3)			0.16 (0.6)	0.32	0.18
ED visits/month	0.23 (0.4)			0.26 (0.4)			0.21 (0.4)	0.54	0.13
Resource Use- Difference from Baseline
	All patients (N = 34)			Dartmouth (n = 23)			UAB (n = 11)
	Mean (SE)	p *	Effect size†	Mean (SE)	p *	Effect size†	Mean (SE)	p *	Effect size†
Hospital days/month	−0.89 (0.3)	0.002	0.39	−1.18 (0.4)	0.006	0.57	−0.61 (0.4)	0.13	0.24
Days/month in ICU, Mean	−0.16 (0.1)	0.06	0.29	−0.12 (0.1)	0.23	0.26	−0.21 (0.2)	0.16	0.31
ED visits/month, Mean	−0.05 (0.1)	0.33	0.17	0 (0.1)	0.94	0.05	−0.09 (0.1)	0.26	0.26

Abbreviations: SD standard deviation, SE standard error, Estimates from longitudinal models fitted with negative binomial distributions (log link), adjusted for baseline, PACIC Patient Activation, and religious preference

^* p-values from t-test or Fisher’s exact tests, as appropriate

^†Effect size: Cohen’s d (Cohen, 1988), or d-equivalent (Rosenthal & Rubin, 2003) small: d ~ 0.2, moderate d ~ 0.5, large d ~ 0.8