Costs and effects of a telephonic diabetes self-management support intervention using health educators.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Self-management is crucial to successful glycemic control in patients with diabetes, yet it requires patients to initiate and sustain complicated behavioral changes. Support programs can improve glycemic control, but may be expensive to implement. We report here an analysis of the costs of a successful telephone-based self-management support program delivered by lay health educators utilizing a municipal health department A1c registry, and relate them to near-term effectiveness.

Methods

Costs of implementation were assessed by micro-costing of all resources used. Per-capita costs and cost-effectiveness ratios from the perspective of the service provider are estimated for net A1c reduction, and percentages of patients achieving A1c reductions of 0.5 and 1.0 percent

SUBMITTER: Schechter CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4761277 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature