Table 3 Difference-in-difference analysis on 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 trusts with an alcohol team (n = 4768) | Hospital trusts with no alcohol team (n = 4397) | |||||||
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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) | 1.666 (1.69) | 1.349 (2.31) | −0.318 (0.032) | 1.691 (1.92) | 1.353 (2.37) | −0.338 (0.033) | 0.020 (−0.070, 0.111) | 0.656 |
Emergency admissions (alcohol related) | 1.301 (1.37) | 1.074 (2.01) | −0.227 (0.028) | 1.283 (1.49) | 1.081 (2.04) | −0.202 (0.029) | −0.025 (−0.104, 0.054) | 0.536 |
Emergency department attendances (all) | 1.437 (3.08) | 1.620 (4.72) | 0.182 (0.046) | 1.117 (2.43) | 1.257 (3.31) | 0.140 (0.047) | 0.042 (−0.087, 0.171) | 0.521 |