Table 3.

Results of the before and after analysis on healthcare resources use (n = 28 patients).

	Before	After	P-value
All-cause hospital admissions, mean/patient/year (SD)	2.6 (1.6)	1.1 (1.5)	<0.001
Condition-specific hospital admissionsa, mean/patient/year (SD)	1.9 (1.2)	0.6 (1.2)	<0.001
Length of hospital stay, mean/patient/year (SD)	11.4 (6.9)	7.9 (3.3)	0.074
Emergency department attendances, mean/patient/year (SD)	4.2 (2.6)	2.11 (2.6)	<0.001
Emergency department attendances not followed by hospital admissions, mean/patient/year (SD)	1.7 (1.9)	1 (1.4)	0.034
Proportion of emergency department attendances not followed by hospital admission	60/170 (35.3%)	29/59 (49.1%)	0.084

^aHospital admissions caused by respiratory or heart-related exacerbations.

SD: standard deviation.