Table 2.
Hospital admissions, emergency department visits, and outpatient clinic visits during the study period and their corresponding annual costs in Euros
| Usage during study perioda | Annual cost, euros, mean (SD) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncontrolled CS n = 52 |
Controlled CS n = 52 |
P value | Uncontrolled CS | Controlled CS | P value | |
| Any hospitalisation, n (%) | 21 (40.4%) | 10 (19.2%) | 0.0116*b | 5511.59 (10,166.14) | 1457.22 (3346.59) | 0.0280*c |
| No. of hospitalisations, mean (SD) | 0.62 (0.97) | 0.25 (0.59) | 0.0024*c | |||
| Length of stay, days, mean (SD) | 7.87 (13.66) | 2.10 (4.90) | 0.0178*c | |||
| Department admitted to, n (%) | ||||||
| General and GI surgery | 5 (9.6%) | 5 (9.6%) | ||||
| Endocrinology | 4 (7.7%) | 0 | ||||
| Internal medicine | 2 (3.8%) | 0 | ||||
| Nuclear medicine | 1 (1.9%) | 1 (1.9%) | ||||
| Medical oncology | 13 (25.0%) | 3 (5.8%) | ||||
| Palliative care | 1 (1.9%) | 0 | ||||
| ICU | 1 (1.9%) | 0 | ||||
| GI | 0 | 1 (1.9%) | ||||
| Any ED visit, n (%) | 17 (32.7%) | 3 (5.8%) | 0.0010*b | 161.25 (333.48) | 14.85 (63.13) | 0.0236*c |
| No. of ED visits, mean (SD) | 1.0 (2.05) | 0.10 (0.41) | 0.0167*c | |||
| Any outpatient visit, n (%) | 32 (61.5%) | 33 (63.5%) | 0.8273b | 633.34 (838.32) | 510.03 (661.29) | 0.2322c |
| No. of outpatient visits (all specialties), mean (SD) | 6.48 (8.41) | 5.87 (7.54) | 0.1731c | |||
| No. of outpatient visits, by specialty, mean (SD) | ||||||
| Primary care | 0.37 (2.11) | 0.58 (2.86) | ||||
| Cardiology | 0.38 (0.75) | 0.13 (0.34) | ||||
| General surgery | 0.44 (2.04) | 0.79 (2.27) | ||||
| Dermatology | 0.04 (0.28) | 0.00 (0.00) | ||||
| Endocrinology | 1.10 (2.56) | 0.85 (1.66) | ||||
| Gynaecology | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | ||||
| Internal medicine | 0 (0.00) | 0.02 (0.14) | ||||
| Nuclear medicine | 0.15 (0.64) | 0.23 (0.85) | ||||
| Pneumonology | 0.10 (0.41) | 0 (0.00) | ||||
| Medical oncology | 3.85 (5.85) | 3.15 (5.15) | ||||
| Interventional radiology | 0.02 (0.14) | 0.00 (0.00) | ||||
| Nephrology | 0 (0.00) | 0.02 (0.14) | ||||
| Neurology | 0 (0.00) | 0.04 (0.28) | ||||
| Ophthalmology | 0 (0.00) | 0.04 (0.19) | ||||
| Radiation oncology | 0.04 (0.28) | 0.02 (0.14) | ||||
ED emergency department, GI gastrointestinal, ICU intensive care unit, SD standard deviation
*Statistically significant (P < 0.05)
aAdjusted according to the relative time at which the information was collected: from 6 to 12 months in the uncontrolled vs from 9 to 15 months in the controlled CS group
bMantel–Haenszel Chi-square
cPaired t test