Age-Based Differences in Care Setting Transitions over the Last Year of Life

Table 1

Comparisons across younger and older subjects (𝑁=19,397).

	Younger adults	Older adults	P
	Means	Means
Total care setting transitions	3.9	3.4	.00
Inpatient hospital discharges (count)	1.6	1.6	.63
Total inpatient days	36.2	42.7	.00
Provincial hospital stays	1.6	1.2	.00
Provincial hospital length of stays	32.4	39.9	.00
Regional hospital stays	.3	.3	.08
Regional hospital length of stays	24.9	28.4	.04
Local hospitalizations	.6	.8	.00
Local hospital stays	24.9	34.5	.00
Number of procedures	3.6	2.0	.00
Number of surgical procedures only	2.6	1.3	.00
Palliative care visits	1.3	1.2	.00
Cancer care visits	1.9	1.6	.00
Outpatient visits	6.2	4.6	.00
Outpatient procedures	12.0	8.7	.00
ER visits	3.2	2.7	.00
ER procedures	4.1	3.6	.00
Day surgery visits	2.9	2.4	.11
Day surgery procedures	17.5	17.4	.96

Mean differences were tested using the t-test for independent samples.