Cost-effectiveness of a proactive, integrated primary care approach for community-dwelling frail older persons.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The article reports on the cost-effectiveness of the proactive, integrated primary care program Finding and Follow-up of Frail older persons (FFF) compared with usual primary care for community-dwelling frail older persons in the Netherlands.

Methods

This study had a matched quasi-experimental design (pretest and posttest). The economic evaluation was performed from a healthcare perspective with a time horizon of 12 months. The target population consisted of community-dwelling frail older persons aged ≥ 75 years in the FFF intervention group (11 general practitioner (GP) practices) and in the control group receiving usual care (4 GP practices). The effectiveness measures for the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses were subjective well-being

SUBMITTER: Vestjens L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6617694 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature