Economic Analysis of Mobile Integrated Health Care Delivered by Emergency Medical Services Paramedic Teams.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Mobile integrated health care (MIH) is a new model of community-based health care to provide on-site urgent or nonurgent care. Niagara emergency medical services (NEMS) started MIH in 2018 to serve the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada. However, its economic impact is unknown.

Objective

To compare time on task and cost between MIH and ambulance delivered by NEMS from a public payer's perspective.

Design, setting, and participants

This economic evaluation was an analysis of the NEMS databases regarding responses to emergency calls by the NEMS from 2016 to 2019. Emergency calls serviced by MIH in 2018 to 2019 were used as an intervention cohort. Propensity score matching was used to identify a 1:1 matched cohort of calls serviced by regular ambulance response

SUBMITTER: Xie F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7905495 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature