Health economic evaluation of blended collaborative care for older multimorbid heart failure patients: study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Integrated care, in particular the 'Blended Collaborative Care (BCC)' strategy, may have the potential to improve health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in multimorbid patients with heart failure (HF) and psychosocial burden at no or low additional cost. The ESCAPE trial is a randomised controlled trial for the evaluation of a BCC approach in five European countries. For the economic evaluation of alongside this trial, the four main objectives were: (i) to document the costs of delivering the intervention, (ii) to assess the running costs across study sites, (iii) to evaluate short-term cost-effectiveness and cost-utility compared to providers' usual care, and (iv) to examine the budgetary implications.

Methods

The trial-based economic analyses will include cross-

SUBMITTER: Derendorf L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11015692 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature