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. 2021 Dec 13;21:430. doi: 10.1186/s12886-021-02181-1

Table 3.

Healthcare resource utilization by AMD patients treated at the Brazilian public health system since 2014

Mean (SD) Median (IQR)
Outpatient (N = 23,031)
 Number of procedures per patient/year 13.52 (32.69) 4.33 (1.83-9.31)
 Number of OCT per patient/year 1.36 (0.55) 1.25 (0.93-1.64)
 Number of antiangiogenic therapies per patient/year 2.50 (1.36) 2.37 (1.35-3.43)
Inpatient (N = 62)
 Number of hospitalizations per patient - total 1.42 (0.66) 1.00 (1.00-2.00)
 Number of hospitalizations per patient/year 0.87 (0.88) 0.56 (0.29 – 0.94)
 Length of stay per hospitalization, in days 1.11 (0.32) 1.00 (1-1)