Primary care in supplementary health: assessment of costs in the care of older adult patients with heart diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

to identify whether implementing a supplementary Primary Health Care (PHC) system makes it possible to reduce care costs for older adults with heart diseases.

Methods

a retrospective cohort of 223 patients with heart disease aged ≥ 60 years. Data were obtained from medical records and cost databases, assessed for a period of one year before and after PHC implementation. The results were expressed as mean absolute frequencies for number of hospitalizations and as average annual expenses expressed in dollars (US$) in relation to cost data.

Results

there was a reduction in hospitalization expenses after implementing supplementary PHC (p=0.01) and a decrease in the frequency of hospitalizations for the entire sample (p=0.006). There was a reduction in the frequ

SUBMITTER: Marques GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10332371 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature