Developing a new quality of life instrument with older people for economic evaluation in aged care: study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The ageing of the population represents a significant challenge for aged care in Australia and in many other countries internationally. In an environment of increasing resource constraints, new methods, techniques and evaluative frameworks are needed to support resource allocation decisions that maximise the quality of life and well-being of older people. Economic evaluation offers a rigorous, systematical and transparent framework for measuring quality and efficiency, but there is currently no composite mechanism for incorporating older people's values into the measurement and valuation of quality of life for quality assessment and economic evaluation. In addition, to date relatively few economic evaluations have been conducted in aged care despite the large potential

SUBMITTER: Ratcliffe J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6538028 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature