Cost-effectiveness analysis of a community paramedicine programme for low-income seniors living in subsidised housing: the community paramedicine at clinic programme (CP@clinic).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the Community Paramedicine at Clinic (CP@clinic) programme compared with usual care in seniors residing in subsidised housing.

Design

A cost-utility analysis was conducted within a large pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT). Subsidised housing buildings were matched by sociodemographics and location (rural/urban), and allocated to intervention (CP@clinic for 1 year) or control (usual care) via computer-assisted paired randomisation.

Setting

Thirty-two subsidised seniors' housing buildings in Ontario.

Participants

Building residents 55 years and older.

Intervention

CP@clinic is a weekly community paramedic-led, chronic disease prevention and health promotion programme in the building common a

SUBMITTER: Agarwal G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7592288 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature