Impact Assessment of an Innovative Integrated Care Model for Older Complex Patients with Multimorbidity: The CareWell Project.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the impact in terms of use of health services, clinical outcomes, functional status, and patient's satisfaction of an integrated care program, the CareWell program, for complex patients with multimorbidity, supported by information and communication technology platforms in six European regions.

Data sources

Primary data were used and the follow-up period ranged between 8 and 12 months.

Study design

A quasi-experimental study, targeting chronic patients aged 65 or older, with 2 or more conditions - one of them necessarily being diabetes, congestive heart failure or congestive obstructive pulmonary disease. The intervention group received the integrated care program and the control group received usual care. Generalized mixed regression models wer

SUBMITTER: Mateo-Abad M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7243835 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature