Economic Evaluations of Health Service Interventions Targeting Patients with Multimorbidities: A Scoping Literature Review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Multimorbid patients have been growing, leading to an exponential increase in healthcare costs and patterns of resource utilization. Despite the heightened interest toward integrated care programs as a response to the complex need of multimorbid patients, economic evaluations of these programs remain scarce. This work investigated the economic evaluations of service interventions targeting multimorbid patients, to identify the characteristics of these programs and the methods applied to their evaluation.

Methods

We conducted a scoping review of papers published between 2010 and 2021 on PubMed, Science Direct, EconLit and Web Of Science. The search strategy was built around three keyword blocks: service interventions, multimorbidity, economic evaluations. We sele

SUBMITTER: Ferrara L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11760752 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature