Feasibility of micro-costing for hospital-at-home in Danish municipalities: a prospective pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To test the feasibility of identifying and quantifying resource use for a Hospital-at-Home (HaH) model in Danish municipalities, we used a micro-costing approach. Additionally, we aimed to generate a transparent activity and time dataset. This dataset will support subsequent tariff development with time-driven activity-based costing and feed into the economic evaluation of an ongoing randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Design

Prospective pilot feasibility study.

Setting

Three municipalities in the Central Denmark Region in collaboration with emergency department specialists and general practitioners.

Participants

56 elderly acute patients treated in HaH during the pilot phase.

Outcome measures

Feasibility of micro-costing data collection (compl

SUBMITTER: Tayyari N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12742097 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature