Cost-effectiveness of a multicondition collaborative care intervention: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Patients with depression and poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease (CHD), or both have higher medical complication rates and higher health care costs, suggesting that more effective care management of psychiatric and medical disease control might also reduce medical service use and enhance quality of life.

Objective

To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a multicondition collaborative treatment program (TEAMcare) compared with usual primary care (UC) in outpatients with depression and poorly controlled diabetes or CHD.

Design

Randomized controlled trial of a systematic care management program aimed at improving depression scores and hemoglobin A(1c) (HbA(1c)), systolic blood pressure (SBP), and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) l

SUBMITTER: Katon W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3840955 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature