The impact of alcohol care teams on emergency secondary care use following a diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease - a national cohort study

Table 2 Characteristics of ARLD cohort according to whether they had their first recorded diagnosis at an NHS hospital trust which had or did not have an alcohol team in 2009/10

Characteristic of ARLD cohort	Alcohol team
	Yes (n = 4,768)	No (n = 4,397)	p value^a
Male (%)	3290 (69.0 %)	3057 (69.5 %)	0.5878
Mean (SD) age (years)	53.6 (12.8)	54.2 (12.7)	0.0171
Age range (years)	17–94	18–95
Resident in most deprived quintile of IMD (%)	1983 (41.6 %)	1253 (28.5 %)	<0.0001
White British ethnicity^b (%)	358 (7.5 %)	448 (10.2 %)	<0.0001
Died in hospital during one year follow up	1125 (23.6 %)	1020 (23.2 %)	0.6367

SD standard deviation
^aChi squared test for proportions (% male, % in most deprived Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) quintile, % White British & % one-year in-hospital mortality) and t-test for difference in mean age
^bEthnicity was unknown for the majority of individuals

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