Table 4 Difference-in-difference analysis on male 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 = 3,290) | Hospital sites with no alcohol team (n = 3,057) | |||||||
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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) | 1.696 (1.800) | 1.398 (2.412) | −0.298 (0.040) | 1.717 (1.994) | 1.401 (2.435) | −0.315 (0.042) | 0.018 (−0.095 to 0.131) | 0.758 |
Emergency admissions (alcohol related) | 1.340 (1.490) | 1.114 (2.096) | −0.226 (0.035) | 1.316 (1.578) | 1.129 (2.146) | −0.187 (0.037) | −0.039 (−0.139 to 0.060) | 0.442 |
Emergency department attendances | 1.516 (3.353) | 1.763 (5.207) | 0.247 (0.060) | 1.144 (2.518) | 1.343 (3.613) | 0.199 (0.062) | 0.048 (−0.120 to 0.217) | 0.575 |