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Table 4 Rate of ED visit and hospital admissions per 1000 RAC beds per month

From: Video-telehealth to support clinical assessment and management of acutely unwell older people in Residential Aged Care: a pre-post intervention study

 

No Telehealth

Telehealth

Variable

 

Pre -intervention

control

Post-intervention control

Pre-intervention

Post-intervention

ED visits per 1000 RAC beds per month

mean (SD)

1.82 (1.22)

1.67 (1.28)

1.88 (1.54)

1.71 (1.62)

median (Q1, Q3)

1.66 (0.89, 2.49)

1.33 (0.73, 2.12)

1.59 (0.71, 2.83)

1.26 (0.53, 2.55)

Hospital admissions per 1000 RAC beds per month

mean (SD)

0.97 (0.83)

0.93 (0.75)

1.07 (1.04)

1.08 (1.08)

median (Q1, Q3)

0.68 (0.34, 1.29)

0.69 (0.35, 1.29)

0.79 (0.37, 1.54)

0.79 (0.35, 1.54)