[Integrated care management for older people with chronic diseases in domesticity: evidence from Cochrane reviews].

ABSTRACT:

Background

The number of multiple chronically ill older people is increasing and multimorbidity is associated with high utilization of health services. Integrated care management is increasingly used to address this problem; however, there is a substantial lack of reliable data on its effectiveness in this target group.

Objective

To assess the effectiveness of components of integrated care management in adults of all ages and to estimate the transferability to older, multimorbid people in Germany.

Methods

A systematic search was carried out in the Cochrane Library for Cochrane reviews (CR) on (a) the 13 most frequent health problems in old age, which (b) evaluated components of integrated care management in (c) adults of all ages. Experts assessed the transferability

SUBMITTER: Gohner A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7835300 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature