Resource use and cost of annual health checks in primary care for people with intellectual disabilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The annual health check (AHC) programme, as part of a Directed Enhanced Service, offers an incentive to general practitioners in England to conduct health checks for people with intellectual disabilities (IDs). The aim of this analysis was to estimate the impact on health care costs of AHCs in primary care to the National Health Service in England by comparing adults with ID who did or did not have AHCs using data obtained from The Health Improvement Network.

Methods

Two hundred eight records of people with ID from The Health Improvement Network database were analysed. Baseline health care resource use was captured at the time the first AHC was recorded (i.e. index date), or the earliest date after 1 April 2008 for those without an AHC. We examined the volume of r

SUBMITTER: Panca M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6451619 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature