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Table 5 Resource Use At Baseline

From: Engaging patients and families to create a feasible clinical trial integrating palliative and heart failure care: results of the ENABLE CHF-PC pilot clinical trial

At Baseline (prior 3 months)

All patients (N = 60)

Dartmouth (n = 31)

UAB (n = 29)

 

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

p

Effect size

Hospital days/month

1.44 (3.0)

1.7 (3.6)

1.17 (2.2)

0.72

0.18

ICU days/month

0.26 (1.0)

0.34 (1.3)

0.16 (0.6)

0.32

0.18

ED visits/month

0.23 (0.4)

0.26 (0.4)

0.21 (0.4)

0.54

0.13

Resource Use- Difference from Baseline

 

All patients (N = 34)

Dartmouth (n = 23)

UAB (n = 11)

 

Mean (SE)

p *

Effect size†

Mean (SE)

p *

Effect size†

Mean (SE)

p *

Effect size†

Hospital days/month

−0.89 (0.3)

0.002

0.39

−1.18 (0.4)

0.006

0.57

−0.61 (0.4)

0.13

0.24

Days/month in ICU, Mean

−0.16 (0.1)

0.06

0.29

−0.12 (0.1)

0.23

0.26

−0.21 (0.2)

0.16

0.31

ED visits/month, Mean

−0.05 (0.1)

0.33

0.17

0 (0.1)

0.94

0.05

−0.09 (0.1)

0.26

0.26

  1. Abbreviations: SD standard deviation, SE standard error, Estimates from longitudinal models fitted with negative binomial distributions (log link), adjusted for baseline, PACIC Patient Activation, and religious preference
  2. * p-values from t-test or Fisher’s exact tests, as appropriate
  3. †Effect size: Cohen’s d (Cohen, 1988), or d-equivalent (Rosenthal & Rubin, 2003) small: d ~ 0.2, moderate d ~ 0.5, large d ~ 0.8