Cost savings associated with improving appropriate and reducing inappropriate preventive care: cost-consequences analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Outreach facilitation has been proven successful in improving the adoption of clinical preventive care guidelines in primary care practice. The net costs and savings of delivering such an intensive intervention need to be understood. We wanted to estimate the proportion of a facilitation intervention cost that is offset and the potential for savings by reducing inappropriate screening tests and increasing appropriate screening tests in 22 intervention primary care practices affecting a population of 90,283 patients.

Methods

A cost-consequences analysis of one successful outreach facilitation intervention was done, taking into account the estimated cost savings to the health system of reducing five inappropriate tests and increasing seven appropriate tests. Multipl

SUBMITTER: Hogg W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1079830 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature