Table 2. Association of an Additional Social Worker With Individuals per 1000 Veterans Who Received Palliative Care or Hospice Services in the Month After a Hospital Stay by Type of Hospitalization, October 2016 to September 2019.
Model | Change, No. per 1000 veterans (95% CI) | ||
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Any hospitalization | VA hospitalization | Community hospitalization | |
2-Way fixed-effects modela | 5.3 (2.3 to 8.3) | 5.3 (1.4 to 9.1) | 6.0 (−0.2 to 12.1) |
P value | .001 | .009 | .06 |
Double-robust (group-time average)b | 15.6 (9.2 to 22) | 14.3 (5.9 to 22.7) | 10.4 (4.1 to 16.8) |
Adjusted for site and year-month fixed effects and demographic and clinical characteristics listed in Table 1.
Change in outcome for intervention sites is compared with not-yet-treated sites. Association is estimated separately for each group of sites that received the intervention in the same month, and these estimates are combined in a weighted mean based on the size of each group.