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Table 3 Mean number of hospital stays in the 3 years following the decision to initiate continuing care in the groups with 0, 1, 2 or ≥3 hospital stays in the first year

From: Hospital and outpatient clinic utilization among older people in the 3-5 years following the initiation of continuing care: a longitudinal cohort study

Group

First year

Second year

Third year

p-valuea

Post-hoc analyses b

0 hospital stay

Mean (SD)

(n = 437)

0.0 (0.0)

0.5 (1.0)

0.5 (1.1)

< 0.001

A, B

1 hospital stay

Mean (SD)

(n = 118)

1.0 (0.0)

0.8 (1.3)

0.6 (1.2)

0.009

B

2 hospital stays Mean (SD)

(n = 56)

2.0 (0.0)

0.8 (1.5)

0.6 (1.1)

< 0.001

A, B

≥3 hospital stays

Mean (SD)

(n = 65)

4.4 (2.2)

2.0 (2.5)

1.1 (2.3)

< 0.001

A, B, C

  1. Those who died were excluded from the analysis
  2. a) Repeated measures (with Huyunh- Feldts correction)
  3. the Bonferroni method was used in the post-hoc analyses.
  4. b) Significant differences between: A = Years 1 and 2, B = Years 1 and 3, C = Years 2 and 3