An Australian aged care home for people subject to homelessness: health, wellbeing and cost–benefit

BMC Geriatrics

Table 4 Hospital service use and deaths over the first 12 months post admission per frailty group

	Not frail (n = 14)	Frail (n = 21)	Test statistic	p-value
ED # of presentations	54	44	132.5^a	NS
Hospital # of admissions	19	39	114.5^a	NS
Hospital length of stay (days)	62	230	89.0^a	= .042^c
Outpatient # occasions of service	117	51	136.5^a	NS
# residents deceased	0	9	8.077 ^b	< .005

^aMann–Whitney U tests
^bX² test
^cNo longer significant after applying Bonferroni adjustment for multiple comparisons

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