Table 5 Difference-in-difference analysis on female patients presenting to NHS hospital trusts with alcohol teams compared to NHS hospital trusts without - Estimated intervention effects for emergency hospital activity in the year before and the year after diagnosis (as mean per patient)
Hospital sites with an alcohol team (n = 1,478) | Hospital sites with no alcohol team (n = 1,340) | |||||||
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One year before diagnosis (SD) | One year after diagnosis (SD) | Difference (SE) | One year before diagnosis (SD) | One year after diagnosis (SD) | Difference (SE) | Difference in difference (95 % CI) | P-value | |
Emergency admissions (all) | 1.600 (1.422) | 1.237 (2.072) | −0.363 (0.051) | 1.631 (1.750) | 1.241 (2.205) | −0.390 (0.053) | 0.028 (−0.116 to 0.172) | 0.707 |
Emergency admissions (alcohol related) | 1.214 (1.067) | 0.984 (1.789) | −0.229 (0.044) | 1.208 (1.250) | 0.972 (1.782) | −0.237 (0.046) | 0.007 (−0.118 to 0.133) | 0.910 |
Emergency department attendances | 1.263 (2.334) | 1.301 (3.354) | 0.038 (0.062) | 1.054 (2.200) | 1.060 (2.482) | 0.006 (0.065) | 0.032 (−0.145 to 0.209) | 0.724 |