Table 5.

Outside hospital admissions and ED visits for a subset of consented patients.

	Site 1	Site 2
Subset of patients consented for survey of outside hospital* utilization, 113 total patients consented and surveyed	56 patients consented	57 patients consented
190 outside ED visits involving 38 of 113 patients, 33.6% had outside ED visits.	Average of 2.8 ED visits per patient per year over 2.5 years	Average of 0.6 ED visits per patient per year over 2.5 years
110 outside hospitalizations involving 27 of 113 patients, 23.9% had outside hospital admissions)	Average of 1.6 hospitalizations per patient per year over 2.5 years	Average of 0.4 hospitalizations per patient per year over 2.5 years

ED, emergency department.

^*Acute health care encounters for enrolled patients at hospitals within 20 miles of each of the two study sites