Cost-effectiveness of a care manager collaborative care programme for patients with depression in primary care: economic evaluation of a pragmatic randomised controlled study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a care manager (CM) programme compared with care as usual (CAU) for treatment of depression at primary care centres (PCCs) from a healthcare as well as societal perspective.

Design

Cost-effectiveness analysis.

Setting

23 PCCs in two Swedish regions.

Participants

Patients with depression (n=342).

Main outcome measures

A cost-effectiveness analysis was applied on a cluster randomised trial at PCC level where patients with depression had 3 months of contact with a CM (11 intervention PCCs, n=163) or CAU (12 control PCCs, n=179), with follow-up 3 and 6 months. Effectiveness measures were based on the number of depression-free days (DFDs) calculated from the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale-Self and qua

SUBMITTER: Holst A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6252772 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature