Table 3.

Crude rates of hospital utilization before and after starting home-based primary care (HBPC) or home care (HC)

ED emergency department, PD patient days, CI confidence interval, CTAS Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (A classification scale that groups patients into five levels of urgency when they present to the ED, ranges from 1 (resuscitation) to 5 (non urgent))

^aAfter enrolment in respective program including 30 day lag period

†p-value generated from univariate Poisson regression models; significant results are presented in boldface and italics

§p-value generated using Chi-square test for binary variable CTAS 1-3 versus CTAS 4-5; significant results are presented in boldface and italics