A model-based cost-utility analysis of an automated notification system for deteriorating patients on general wards.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Delayed response to clinical deterioration of hospital inpatients is common. Deployment of an electronic automated advisory vital signs monitoring and notification system to signal clinical deterioration is associated with significant improvements in clinical outcomes but there is no evidence on the cost-effectiveness compared with routine monitoring, in the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom (UK).

Methods

A decision analytic model was developed to estimate the cost-effectiveness of an electronic automated advisory notification system versus standard care, in adults admitted to a district general hospital. Analyses considered: (1) the cost-effectiveness of the technology based on secondary analysis of patient level data of 3787 inpatients in a bef

SUBMITTER: Holmes E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11065309 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature