Effects of the Mental Health and Welfare Law revision on schizophrenia patients in Korea: an interrupted time series analysis

Table 1 Results from interrupted time series analysis, with 2017 data

	Level change at the revision		Trend change after the revision
	Coefficient	95% SE^a	Coefficient	95% SE^a
First admission (per 1,00,000 persons)	0.03	− 0.01 to 0.01	0.004	− 0.01 to 0.01
Discharge rates (%)	0.60	− 0.04 to 0.03	− 0.01	− 0.04 to 0.03
Readmission within 7 days (%)	− 2.24***	− 3.30 to − 1.18	− 0.10***	− 0.14 to − 0.05
Readmission within 30 days (%)	− 1.99*	− 3.72 to − 0.25	− 0.14***	− 0.22 to − 0.07
Readmission within 90 days (%)	− 0.01	− 0.03 to 0.01	− 0.001*	− 0.002 to − 0.0002
Outpatient visit within 7 days (%)	1.98**	0.68–3.28	− 0.06	− 0.12 to 0.01
Outpatient visit within 30 days (%)	2.72*	0.22–5.21	− 0.05	− 0.17 to 0.08
Continuous care (%)	4.00*	0.31–7.69	− 0.27	− 0.63 to 0.08

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