Twelve-month cost-effectiveness of telephone-delivered collaborative care for treating depression following CABG surgery: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the 12-month cost-effectiveness of a collaborative care (CC) program for treating depression following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery versus physicians' usual care (UC).

Methods

We obtained 12 continuous months of Medicare and private medical insurance claims data on 189 patients who screened positive for depression following CABG surgery, met criteria for depression when reassessed by telephone 2 weeks following hospitalization (nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire ≥10) and were randomized to either an 8-month centralized, nurse-provided and telephone-delivered CC intervention for depression or to their physicians' UC.

Results

At 12 months following randomization, CC patients had $2068 lower but statistically similar estimated me

SUBMITTER: Donohue JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4138244 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature