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Chunk #22 — Results — Do children on the LCP pathway consume more services as adults than their peers? — Health care outcomes

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The high societal costs of childhood conduct problems: evidence from administrative records up to age 38 in a longitudinal birth cohort.
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Compared to their peers on the low trajectory, study members on the LCP pathway had, on average, significantly more emergency department visits (LCP: 1.8 vs. Low: 0.6), prescription fills (LCP: 100.0 vs. Low: 27.9), and injury insurance-claims (LCP: 6.8 vs. Low: 3.7); they also had more hospital bed-nights (LCP: 9.0 vs. Low: 4.4), although this difference was not statistically significant at the .05 level (p=.08). Additionally, LCP study members accumulated significantly more prescription fills than study members on the childhood-limited trajectory (LCP: 100.0 vs. CL: 38.8) and more injury insurance-claims than those on the adolescent-onset trajectory (LCP: 6.8 vs. AO: 5.2). Though LCP study members comprised 9.0% of the study population, they accounted for 14.7% of all hospital bed-nights, 15.7% of all emergency department visits, 20.5% of all prescription fills, and 13.1% of all injury claims among the cohort.