Table 4 Medication use related to index hospitalization
Total group | No hospitalization the year before the index hospitalization | ≥ 1 hospitalization the year before the index hospitalization | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Without re-admission (n = 466) | With re-admission (n = 737) | p-value | Without re-admission (n = 140) | With re-admission (n = 99) | p-value | Without re-admission (n = 326) | With re-admission (n = 638) | p-value | |
ICS use 6 months before index hospitalization (%) | 16.1% | 21.1% | 0.03 | 10.7% | 10.1% | 0.87 | 18.4% | 22.9% | 0.11 |
ICS use 3 months after index hospitalization (%) | 14.1% | 17.8% | 0.10 | 8.5% | 10.1% | 0.69 | 16.6% | 19.0% | 0.36 |
LAMA use 6 months before index hospitalization (%) | 34.8% | 48.4% | < 0.0001 | 22.8% | 26.3% | 0.54 | 39.9% | 51.9% | 0.0004 |
LAMA use 3 months after index hospitalization (%) | 36.9% | 51.8% | < 0.0001 | 28.6% | 41.1% | 0.04 | 40.5% | 53.4% | 0.0001 |
SABA use 6 months before index hospitalization (%) | 42.3%% | 49.8% | 0.01 | 33.5% | 43.4% | 0.12 | 46.0% | 50.8% | 0.03 |
SABA use 3 months after index hospitalization (%) | 43.5% | 46.4% | 0.33 | 36.4% | 41.4% | 0.43 | 46.6% | 47.1% | 0.87 |
LABA use 6 months before index hospitalization (%) | 4.9% | 6.6% | 0.22 | 2.8% | 3.0% | 0.93 | 5.8% | 7.2% | 0.42 |
LABA use 3 months after index hospitalization (%) | 5.4% | 8.1% | 0.07 | 6.4% | 9.1% | 0.44 | 4.9% | 8.0% | 0.07 |