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Table 6 Dichotomous outcomes: patients with primary diagnosis of “tendency to fall”

From: The emergency to home project: impact of an emergency department care coordinator on hospital admission and emergency department utilization among seniors

 

Frequency of outcome number, (%) n = 88

Number of EDCC patients with outcome (%) n = 44

Number of non-EDCC patients with outcome (%) n = 44

Number (%) of pairs where EDCC experienced the outcome and non-EDCC did not, n = 44

Number (%) of pairs where non-EDCC experienced the outcome and EDCC did not, n = 44

McNemar’s test: p-value

Admissions

68 (77.3)

36 (81.2)

32 (72.3)

12 (27.3)

8 (18.2)

0.5034

Revisits

12 (13.6)

6 (13.6)

6 (13.6)

5 (11.4)

5 (11.4)

1.000

Readmission

6 (6.8)

4 (9.1)

2 (4.6)

3 (6.8)

1 (2.3)

0.6250