An economic evaluation of a specialist preventive care clinician in a community mental health service: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical practice guidelines and policies direct community mental health services to provide preventive care to address chronic disease risks, however, such care is infrequently provided in routine consultations. An alternative model of care is to appoint a clinician to the dedicated role of offering and providing preventive care in an additional consultation: the 'specialist clinician' model. Economic evaluations of models of care are needed to determine the cost of adhering to guidelines and policies, and to inform pragmatic service delivery decisions. This study is an economic evaluation of the specialist clinician model; designed to achieve policy concordant preventive care delivery.

Methods

A retrospective analysis of the incremental costs, cost-effectiveness

SUBMITTER: Fehily C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7212584 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature