Do mobile hospital teams in residential aged care facilities increase health care efficiency: an evaluation of French residential care policy.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Patients in residential aged care facilities (RACF) are frequently admitted to hospital since the RACF often lack adequate medical resources. Different economic agents, whose missions and funding may conflict, provide care for RACF residents: residential facility, primary care physicians, and hospital. In this article, I estimate the economic impact of employing a mobile hospital team (MHT) in RACF, which modifies the relationship between these three agents by providing care directly in RACF.

Method

A national, patient level database on RACF from 2014 to 2017 is used to calculate RACF outcome indicators. I analyse the difference between RACFs, that use MHT for the first time during the period (treatment group), and those that did not use MHT at all in the same period

SUBMITTER: Penneau A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9492467 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature