Health benefits and costs of weight-loss dietary counselling by nurses in primary care: a cost-effectiveness analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to estimate the cost-effectiveness of brief weight-loss counselling by dietitian-trained practice nurses, in a high-income-country case study.

Design

A literature search of the impact of dietary counselling on BMI was performed to source the 'best' effect size for use in modelling. This was combined with multiple other input parameters (e.g. epidemiological and cost parameters for obesity-related diseases, likely uptake of counselling) in an established multistate life-table model with fourteen parallel BMI-related disease life tables using a 3 % discount rate.

Setting

New Zealand (NZ).

Participants

We calculated quality-adjusted life-years (QALY) gained and health-system costs over the remainder of the lifespan of the NZ population alive in

SUBMITTER: Cleghorn CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10200487 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature