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Table 5 Reduction across specialty groups of inpatient stay episodes in 12 months before-after analysis

From: Case management intervention of high users of the emergency department of a Portuguese hospital: a before-after design analysis

 

Before

After

Variation

General Surgery

18

4

-78%*

Psychiatry

16

5

-69%*

Internal Medicine

41

23

-44%

Urology

4

3

-25%

Cardiology

6

6

0%

Nephrology

2

2

0%

Neurology

1

1

0%

Pneumology

4

6

 + 50%

  1. *p < 0.05, one-tailed t-test for the reduction in mean
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