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Table 4 Results of Health Care Utilization by Group: Physician Visits, Emergency Room Visits, Hospitalisations

From: Monitoring physical functioning as the sixth vital sign: evaluating patient and practice engagement in chronic illness care in a primary care setting--a quasi-experimental design

 

Intervention

Control

F

P

 

Baseline

Mean (SD)

Follow-up

Baseline

Follow-up

  

Number of physician visits

4.88 (7.29)

4.24 (6.073)

3.55 (3.12)

4 (4.29)

0.05

0.82

Number of emergency room visits

0.19 (0.99)

0.22 (0.57)

0.23 (0.50)

0.24 (0.82)

0.02

0.89

Number of hospitalizations

0.19 (0.86)

0.05 (0.23)

0.19 (0.97)

0.07 (0.33)

0.11

0.73

Number of total nights spent in hospital

0.28 (0.17)

0.2 (1.11)

0.15 (0.11)

0.25 (1.24)

0.06

0.81