Days of hospitalization and outpatients’ visits evolution
The number of days of hospitalization per year was not significantly
different for the 3 periods compared: we registered 0.3±0.7 days/year
during [Y-1-Y0], 0.4±0.9days/year during [Y0-Y+1] and 0.4±0.8
days/year during [Y+1-Y+2], with a p value of p=0.21 between
[Y-1-Y0] and [Y+1-Y+2]. Data are shown in Figure 4. The number
of outpatient consultations per year for each patient was not
significantly different between the 3 periods: there were 5.8±2.4
days/year, 5.2±2.1 days/year and 5.4±2.6 days/year for [Y-1-Y0],
[Y0-Y+1] and [Y+1-Y+2], respectively. The results are shown in
Figure 5. No patient was lost to follow-up.