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Table 4 Change in drug prescriptions and cost of drugs during 180 days before/after first observed inpatient visit with diagnosis F43 for the integrative care and conventional care cohorts

From: Usage and cost of first-line drugs for patients referred to inpatient anthroposophic integrative care or inpatient conventional care for stress-related mental disorders—a register based study

 

Integrative Care (N=161)

Conventional Care (N=1571)

Conventional-Integrative

Conventional-Integrative

 

Change from 180-days before to 180-days after index visit

Difference in change between groups

Effect size (Cohen’s d)

DDDs/patient

ATC-N05A

−0.2 (−1.6 to 1.2), p = 0.767

2.0 (0.5 to 3.5), p = 0.004

2.2 (−2.4 to 6.8), p = 0.351

0.1 (−0.1 to 0.2)

ATC-N05B

−15.3 (−26.7 to −3.8), p = 0.004

27.2 (20.3 to 34.1), p < 0.001

42.5 (20.6 to 64.4), p < 0.001

0.3 (0.2 to 0.5)

ATC-N05C

−3.8 (−6.4 to −1.2), p = 0.002

12.3 (10.1 to 14.5), p < 0.001

16.1 (9.2 to 22.9), p < 0.001

0.4 (0.2 to 0.5)

ATC-N06A

−7.4 (−18.4 to 3.5), p = 0.091

22.5 (17.4 to 27.5), p < 0.001

29.9 (13.7 to 46.1), p < 0.001

0.3 (0.1 to 0.5)

Cost/patient (EUR)

ATC-N05A

12.8 (−13.9 to 39.5), p = 0.345

25.7 (14.8 to 36.5), p < 0.001

12.9 (−22.1 to 47.8), p = 0.471

0.1 (−0.1 to 0.2)

ATC-N05B

−2.8 (−4.7 to −0.8), p = 0.003

4.5 (3.0 to 6.0), p < 0.001

7.2 (2.5 to 12.0), p = 0.003

0.3 (0.1 to 0.4)

ATC-N05C

−2.7 (−4.6 to −0.9), p = 0.002

5.4 (3.9 to 6.9), p < 0.001

8.1 (3.5 to 12.7), p < 0.001

0.3 (0.1 to 0.5)

ATC-N06A

−12.6 (−31.1 to 5.9), p = 0.181

27.9 (21.3 to 34.6), p < 0.001

40.5 (18.9 to 62.1), p < 0.001

0.3 (0.1 to 0.5)

  1. DDD, Defined daily dose. EUR, euro. Drug categories according to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification system: N05A, antipsychotics; N05B, anxiolytics; N05C, hypnotics and sedatives; and N06A, antidepressants. Average (95 % confidence interval), p values; Analyses by t-tests (two tailed). Cohen’s d: small 0.2, medium 0.5, large 0.8