Table 4.

Sensitivity analysis: comparison of the ‘non‐completers’ vs. ‘receivers’ groups in the intervention period

	Non‐completers	Receivers	P‐value
Sum of days spent in hospital by HF patients	4435	2254
Days due to any readmission within 30 days	851 (19.2%)	362 (16.1%)	0.002
Days due to a PARE within 30 days	585 (13.2%)	220 (9.8%)	<0.001
Hospitalizations of HF patients	293	138
Followed by any readmission within 30 days	60 (20.5%)	31 (22.5%)	0.637
Followed by a PARE within 30 days	29 (9.9%)	12 (8.7%)	0.692
Range of adjusted expected rate of PARE	7.8–9.2%	7.7–9.1%	N/A

N/A, not applicable; PARE, potentially avoidable readmission.

The ranges of adjusted expected rate of PARE are calculated with the SQLape® (Striving for Quality Level and Analyzing of Patient Expenditures) algorithm.