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Table 4 Summary results for the intervention effect on physician and hospital services

From: The effects of patient education programs on medication use among asthma and COPD patients: a propensity score matching with a difference-in-difference regression approach

 

2008

2009

2010

2011

Average cost for physician services

2.02 (0.97)

10.68 (0.85)

−16.7 (0.76)

72.2 (0.25)

Hospital services

    

 Numbers of inpatient admissions

−0.06 (0.09)

−0.01 (0.77)

−0.01 (0.83)

0.08 (0.15)

 Numbers of asthma/COPD inpatient admissions

−0.02 (0.19)

0.01 (0.69)

−0.01 (0.99)

0.01 (0.87)

 Length of stay in number of days

−0.49 (0.14)

−0.44 (0.19)

−0.53 (0.31)

1.04 (0.28)

  1. Note: The numbers in parentheses show the p-values for the statistical significance of the estimated coefficient for the intervention effect