Table 4.
Smokeless Tobacco Attributable Health Care Utilization and Expenditures by Type of Health Care Service Among US Adults
| Hospital nights | Emergency room visits | Doctor visits | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SE | 95% CI | Mean | SE | 95% CI | Mean | SE | 95% CI | ||||
| Total utilization 2012–2015 (thousands) | 2723 | 60 | 2604 | 2841 | 2494 | 58 | 2380 | 2608 | 714 | 15 | 684 | 743 |
| Utilization per year (thousands) | 681 | 624 | 4638 | |||||||||
| Expenditures per year ($ thousands) | 1825599 | 667778 | 909009 | |||||||||
| Total expenditures per year ($ thousands) | 3402386 | |||||||||||
ST = smokeless tobacco; ZIP = zero-inflated Poisson. Due to nonsignificant estimated coefficients for current ST use and former ST use variables in the ZIP regression model on home care visits, the attributable utilization, and expenditures for home care visits are set to be zero.