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The cost of providing hospital-at-home varied between the three sites from \u00a3628 to \u00a32928 per admission. Hospital-at-home was associated with 18% lower costs during the follow-up period in site 1 (ratio of means 0.82; 95%\u2009CI: 0.76 to 0.89). Limiting the analysis to costs during the 6 months following index discharge, patients in the hospital-at-home cohorts had 27% higher costs (ratio of means 1.27; 95%\u2009CI: 1.14 to 1.41) in site 1, 9% (ratio of means 1.09; 95%\u2009CI: 0.95 to 1.24) in site 2 and 70% in site 3 (ratio of means 1.70; 95%\u2009CI: 1.40 to 2.07) compared with patients in the control cohorts. Admission to hospital-at-home was associated with an increased risk of death during the follow-up period in all three sites (1.09, 95%\u2009CI: 1.00 to 1.19 site 1; 1.29, 95%\u2009CI: 1.15 to 1.44 site 2; 1.27, 95%\u2009CI: 1.06 to 1.54 site 3).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our findings indicate that in these three cohorts, the populations admitted to hospital-at-home and hospital differ. We cannot rule out the risk of residual confounding, as our analysis relied on an administrative data set and we lacked data on disease severity and type of hospitalised care received in the control cohorts.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjopen-2018-023350","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,9]],"date-time":"2019-05-09T13:13:53Z","timestamp":1557407633000},"page":"e023350","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Should I stay or should I go? 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