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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Crit Care. 2017 Jul 3;42:59–64. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2017.06.026

Table 3.

Difference-in-Differences Analyses Comparing Changes in Healthcare Use in Older vs Younger Patients, Higher versus Lower Illness Severity, and Nursing Home Use versus Not

Older Age Illness Severity Nursing Home Use
DID Estimate (95% CI) P DID Estimate (95% CI) p DID Estimate (95% CI) p
Days at Home −40.3 (−43.9, − 36.5) <0.001 −37.8 (−41.5, − 34.1) <0.001 −12.9 (−18.8, − 6.9) <0.001
Days in Healthcare Facility 0.9 (−1.4, 3.2) 0.43 −1.5 (−3.8, 0.7) 0.18 −40.8 (−44.1, − 37.5) <0.001
Days in a Hospital −0.5 (−1.3, 0.2) 0.16 −2.8 (−3.5, − 2.1) <0.001 −12.6 (−13.9, − 11.3) <0.001
Days in a Nursing Facility 1.4 (−0.6, 3.5) 0.17 1.3 (−0.7, 3.3) 0.21 −28.2 (−31.2, − 25.2) <0.001
Proportion of days alive in a healthcare facility 0.06 (0.05, 0.07) <0.001 0.05 (0.04, 0.06) <0.001 0.09 (0.08, 0.1) <0.001