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Table 3 ALD-related health care resource use among patients with HCV and ALD (cases), by ALD type at index diagnosis

From: The economic burden of advanced liver disease among patients with Hepatitis C Virus: a large state Medicaid perspective

Variables

Index diagnosis

Overall1

Decompensated cirrhosis

Hepatocellular carcinoma

P-value2

N

1193

1098

73

 

Inpatient

    

Percent with a hospitalization (1 yr follow-up)

43.8%

45.0%

37.0%

0.224

Hospital admissions (PPPM)

    

Mean

0.1

0.1

0.2

0.445

SD

0.3

0.3

0.3

 

Median

0.0

0.0

0.0

 

Hospital days (PPPM)

    

Mean

0.9

0.9

1.4

0.592

SD

2.1

2.0

3.2

 

Median

0.0

0.0

0.0

 

Outpatient Services3

    

Percent with an outpatient service (1 yr follow-up)

89.0%

90.4%

87.7%

0.416

Outpatient office/clinic services (PPPM)

    

Mean

1.8

1.7

4.8

0.251

SD

5.9

5.0

13.4

 

Median

0.3

0.3

0.3

 

Other Services4

    

Percent with other resource use (1 yr follow-up)

5.5%

4.2%

26.0%

<.001

  1. Source: Florida Medicaid database: claims with dates of service between July 1, 1998 and June 30, 2008.
  2. Notes: Percentages are those with the resource use of interest at any time during the year. ALD-related resource use includes all claims with an ALD-related code.
  3. 1 “Overall” includes 22 patients with an index event defined by either a liver transplant procedure or a diagnosis code indicating history of a liver transplant.
  4. 2Calculated with the Fisher Exact 2-tailed test used for comparison of proportions, and the Wilcoxon test for comparison of means.
  5. 3Patients may have received multiple outpatient services on the same day, including hospital outpatient, physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, clinic, or other outpatient services.
  6. 4 "Other" services include nursing home, home health, hospice, and other services.
  7. ALD advanced liver disease, HCV hepatitis C virus, PPPM per-patient-per-month.