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Table 3 Financial cost savings for secondary care for the TC group per patient per year, adjusted for baseline year and controls

From: Evaluating sustainability: a retrospective cohort analysis of the Oxfordshire therapeutic community

Type of secondary care

Variable

Mean cost difference between groups adjusted for costs in baseline year (95 % CI); P value

Over 1 year

Over 2 years

Over 3 years

Physical health care

Secondary care appt (physical)

£7 (−176, 190)

p = 0.94

£4 (−148, 155)

p = 0.96

−£23 (−177, 132)

p = 0.77

Physical inpt days

£370 (−6, 746)

p = 0.05

£255 (21, 489)

p = 0.03*

£536 (−157, 1229)

p = 0.13

A&E attendance

£58 (4, 112)

p = 0.04*

£39 (−13, 91)

p = 0.14

£40 (−11, 90)

p = 0.12

Mental health care

Secondary care appt (mental)

£506 (−9, 1020)

p = 0.05

£398 (−33, 830)

p = 0.07

£394 (−41, 829)

p = 0.08

Crisis appts

£141 (5, 276)

p = 0.04*

£103 (10, 197)

p = 0.03*

£103 (−11, 218)

p = 0.08

Mental inpt days

£1566 (−821, 3953)

p = 0.20

£1294 (−1155, 3742)

p = 0.30

£1613 (−861, 4087)

p = 0.20

TC service

−£4981

−£2491

−£1,660

Total secondary health care

−£2333

p = 0.06

−£398

p = 0.14

£1003

p = 0.07

  1. Positive values indicate savings in favour of the TC group
  2. * significant at 5 % level