Patient level cost of diabetes self-management education programmes: an international evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objective of this study was to examine the value of time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) in understanding the process and costs of delivering diabetes self-management education (DSME) programmes in a multicountry comparative study.

Setting

Outpatient settings in five European countries (Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, UK) and two countries outside Europe, Taiwan and Israel.

Participants

Providers of DSME programmes across participating countries (N=16) including healthcare professionals, administrators and patients taking part in DSME programmes.

Primary and secondary measures

Primary measure: time spent by providers in the delivery of DSME and resources consumed in order to compute programme costs. Secondary measures: self-report measu

SUBMITTER: Doyle G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623445 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature