Table 2.
Resource use by treatment group from baseline to 1 month follow-up and baseline to 6 month follow-up, complete cases
| Baseline to 1 month follow-up | Baseline to 6 month follow-up | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CGAHAH (N = 563) | Hospital (N = 274) | Difference in means | CGAHAH (N = 563) | Hospital (N = 274) | Difference in means | |
| Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SE) [95% CI] | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SE) [95% CI] | |
| Health and social care | ||||||
| Intervention | ||||||
| Initial admissions (number of days)† | ||||||
| Hospital-at-home | 7.17 (5.62) | 3.84 (7.12) | 3.33 (0.45) [2.44, 4.22] | |||
| Hospital‡ | 1.43 (4.84) | 4.92 (7.64) | −3.49 (0.44) [−4.35, −2.64] | |||
| Subsequent admissions (number of days) | ||||||
| Hospital-at-home‡ | 0.17 (1.64) | 0.28 (1.39) | −0.11 (0.12) [−0.33, 0.12] | 0.69 (3.14) | 0.81 (3.90) | −0.12 (0.25) [−0.61, 0.37] |
| Hospital | 2.20 (5.62) | 1.66 (5.41) | 0.54 (0.41) [−0.27, 1.34] | |||
| Hospital admissions (number of days)* | 9.47 (18.41) | 10.58 (19.49) | −1.12 (1.38) [−3.83, 1.59] | |||
| Primary Care | 7.33 (13.53) | 6.05 (9.06) | 1.28 (0.90) [−0.49, 3.05] | |||
| Outpatient | 2.63 (4.01) | 2.97 (4.57) | −0.34 (0.31) [−0.95, 0.26] | |||
| Home care (number of times)** | 135.91 (306.75) | 117.29 (234.18) | 18.63 (20.99) [110.48, 149.15] | |||
| Residential Care (number of days)*** | 3.43 (16.85) | 6.14 (25.59) | −2.71 (1.48) [−5.62, 0.21] | |||
| Informal care | ||||||
| Total hours of unpaid help over last 6 months | 594.89 (1093.63) | 657.64 (1170.87) | −62.76 (82.46) [−224.61, 99.09] | |||
†Initial admissions include 74 patients allocated to the hospital group that switched group to CGAHAH and 29 patients allocated to CGAHAH that switched to hospital; the average CGAHAH initial length of stay in the hospital group of 3.8 days is allocated to the 74 patients but averaged over 274 patients in the hospital group.
‡The average hospital length of stay in the CGAHAH group of 1.4 days is allocated to the 29 patients who switched to hospital and average over 563 patients who were allocated to CGAHAH.
‡This estimate includes participants who received CGAHAH following discharge from hospital.
*In the analysis, we use hospital admissions at 6 months as this measure includes the initial and subsequent hospital admissions at 1 month and 6 months.
**This resource use is part of personal social services from the HRU questionnaire.
***Although the number of residential care days is averaged over the whole sample of patients in the CGAHAH and hospital group, this value is allocated to 37 patients in the CGAHAH group and 27 patients in the hospital group.