Effect of deinstitutionalisation for adults with intellectual disabilities on costs: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To review systematically the evidence on the costs and cost-effectiveness of deinstitutionalisation for adults with intellectual disabilities. DESIGN:Systematic review. POPULATION:Adults (aged 18 years and over) with intellectual disabilities. INTERVENTION:Deinstitutionalisation, that is, the move from institutional to community settings. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES:Studies were eligible if evaluating within any cost-consequence framework (eg, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis) or resource use typically considered to fall within the societal viewpoint (eg, cost to payers, service-users, families and informal care costs). SEARCH:We searched MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CENTRAL, CINAHL, EconLit, Embase and Scopus to September 2017 and supplemented this with grey l

SUBMITTER: May P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6756329 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature