Hospitalization of high and low inpatient service users before and after enrollment into Assertive Community Treatment teams: a naturalistic observational study

Table 2 Hospitalization of total population, high and low users two years before and during ACT

Outcome	Population	Before ACT enrollment		After ACT enrollment		Change before-after ACT enrollment
Outcome	Population	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean^a	95 % CI	p value^b
New admissions	Total population^c	3.34	3.98	3.00	4.70	0.27	−0.49 to 1.04	0.480
	Low users^d	1.28	1.23	1.62	3.02	−0.33	−0.96 to 0.29	0.284
	High users^e	5.23	4.64	4.39	5.56	0.84	−0.52 to 2.20	0.223
Total inpatient days	Total population^c	120.93	154.63	61.47	77.58	59.46	32.88 to 86.03	<0.001
	Low users^d	26.57	31.37	50.94	82.82	−24.37	−43.37 to −5.37	0.013
	High users^e	207.64	171.37	71.15	71.64	136.49	95.47 to 177.51	<0.001
Involuntary inpatient days	Total population^c	80.82	147.45	36.63	64.99	44.20	19.30 to 69.10	<0.001
	Low users^d	11.76	22.44	31.43	70.54	−19.66	−36.42 to −2.91	0.022
	High users^e	144.28	181.68	41.41	59.51	102.88	61.55 to 144.20	<0.001

^a Positive results indicate mean reduction in outcome after ACT enrollment compared to before while negative results indicate mean increase
^b Analyses of changes using linear mixed models
^c Total population N = 142
^d Low users N = 68
^e High users N = 74

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