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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 Feb 21;16(8):1284–1292.e30. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2018.02.015

Table 2.

Burden of hospitalizations due to chronic gastrointestinal and liver diseases, by deciles and standardized by per month of follow-up. High-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients were defined as patients in the highest decile by total days spent in hospital/month.

Deciles Inflammatory bowel
disease
Chronic liver diseases Functional/motility
disorders
Gastrointestinal
hemorrhage
Pancreatic disease

Median
IQR
5th–95th range
Median
IQR
5th–95th range
Median
IQR
5th–95th range
Median
IQR
5th–95th
range
Median
IQR
5th–95th range

Total days spent in the hospital

1st 0.13 0.13 0.14 0.13 0.14
0.10–0.17 0.10–0.17 0.10–0.18 0.10–0.17 0.10–0.18
0.08–0.18 0.08–0.18 0.08–0.20 0.08–0.18 0.08–0.20

5th 0.55 0.6 0.64 0.6 0.57
0.50–0.57 0.57–0.67 0.58–0.67 0.57–0.64 0.56–0.60
0.45–0.60 0.55–0.70 0.57–0.71 0.55–0.67 0.55–0.63

10th (HNHC patients) 3.71 4.14 4.13 4.12 3.90
3.00–5.08 3.42–5.63 3.36–5.63 3.36–5.58 3.18–5.40
2.63–9.10 3.00–9.89 3.00–9.86 2.92–9.82 2.75–9.56

Total charges across all hospitalizations (in dollars)

1st 427 480 452 414 422
291–662 308–788 298–735 291–600 294–627
153–1529 166–1713 161–1639 165–1166 171–1190

5th 1053 1295 1273 1261 1190
758–1497 912–1877 891–1884 931–1743 871–1633
471–2926 537–3522 536–3780 603–3035 569–2733

10th (HNHC patients) 7502 8925 7794 8983 8221
5270–11348 6045–13858 5353–11742 6269–13560 5722–12579
3391–22805 3475–28473 3082–22946 3969–27575 3546–26461