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- Table 1.
Patient Demographic and Clinical Characteristics at First Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Specialty Clinic Visit (n = 149)
Patient Characteristics Mean (SD) Age 60.2 (10.3) Cigarettes per day 17.3 (11.2) CAT score 23.3 (8.4) Nicotine dependence score 5.1 (2.3) n (%) Sex Male 83 (56.1) Female 65 (43.9) Insurance Yes 83 (55.7) No 66 (44.3) COPD grade A 8 (6.1) B 81 (62.3) C 1 (0.8) D 40 (30.8) Gold stage 1 26 (23.6) 2 52 (47.3) 3 26 (23.6) 4 6 (5.5) Smoking Yes 93 (62.4) No 56 (37.6) Smokeless tobacco use Current user 5 (3.5) Former user 14 (9.7) Never used 125 (86.8) Unequal numbers of patients in some categories due to missing values.
SD, standard deviation; CAT, common admission test.
- Table 2.
Comparisons of the Difference in Total Hospital Admissions, Emergency Department (ED) Visits, and Urgent Care Visits before and after the First Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Specialty Clinic Visit
Mean (SD) t (df) P-Value* Before After 6 month Hospital admissions 0.3 (0.6) 0.09 (0.4) 5.0 (147) < .0001‡ ED visits 0.4 (0.7) 0.1 (0.4) 5.5 (148) < .0001‡ Urgent care visits† — — — — 1 year Hospital admissions 0.4 (0.8) 0.2 (0.7) 4.1 (148) < .0001‡ ED visits 0.5 (0.9) 0.2 (0.7) 4.3 (148) < .0001‡ Urgent care visits 0.05 (0.3) 0 1.8 (148) .07 - Table 3.
Comparison of Mean Difference Nicotine Dependency Scores, Common Admission Test (CAT) Scores, and Cigarette Use/Day before and after the Most Recent Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Clinic Visit
Mean (SD) t (df) P-Value Before After Nicotine dependency scores 4.7 (2.1) 4.2 (2.1) 1.0 (22) 0.32 CAT scores 23.7 (7.5) 20.5 (8.1) 3.3 (55) 0.002‡ Cigarette use/day 17.3 (11.2) 13.8 (11.0) 2.3 (50) 0.03† ↵*P-value from paired sample t-test, †P < .05, ‡P < .01.
SD, standard deviation; df, degrees of freedom.
