Table 2.

Diabetes-related resource use and total health care costs

	Premixed insulin (n = 570)	Long-acting insulin (n = 185)	Crude mean difference (95% CI)	Adjusted mean difference (95% CI)	Adjusted P value
Total medical costs for T2DM, mean (SE), RMB	1467.1 (67.4)	2501.2 (196.1)	− 1034.1 (− 714.7, − 1353.5)	− 946.3 (− 1374.6, − 518.0)	< 0.0001
T2DM-related outpatient visits, mean (SE), no.	6.5 (0.3)	8.3 (0.6)	− 1.8 (− 0.7, − 2.9)	− 1.5 (− 2.7, − 0.3)	0.013
Total T2DM-related outpatient medical costs, mean (SE), RMB	1467.5 (63.3)	2518.9 (193.7)	− 1051.4 (− 744.0, − 1358.8)	− 965.3 (− 1373.5, − 557.2)	< 0.0001

CI confidence interval, T2DM type 2 diabetes mellitus, RMB, renminbi, the official currency of China, SE standard error of mean, no. number