Is comprehensive geriatric assessment hospital at home a cost-effective alternative to hospital admission for older people?
Age Ageing
; 51(1)2022 01 06.
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| ID: mdl-34969074
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
hospital level healthcare in the home guided by comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) might provide a less costly alternative to hospitalisation for older people.OBJECTIVE:
to determine the cost-effectiveness of CGA admission avoidance hospital at home (HAH) compared with hospital admission. DESIGN/INTERVENTION a cost-effectiveness study alongside a randomised trial of CGA in an admission avoidance HAH setting, compared with admission to hospital. PARTICIPANTS/SETTING:
older people considered for a hospital admission in nine locations across the UK were randomised using a 21 randomisation schedule to admission avoidance HAH with CGA (N = 700), or admission to hospital with CGA when available (N = 355). MEASUREMENTS quality adjusted life years, resource use and costs at baseline and 6 months; incremental cost-effectiveness ratios were calculated. The main analysis used complete cases.RESULTS:
adjusting for baseline covariates, HAH was less costly than admission to hospital from a health and social care perspective (mean -£2,265, 95% CI -4,279 to -252), and remained less costly with the addition of informal care costs (mean difference -£2,840, 95% CI -5,495 to -185). There was no difference in quality adjusted survival. Using multiple imputation for missing data, the mean difference in health and social care costs widened to -£2,458 (95% CI -4,977 to 61) and societal costs remained significantly lower (-£3,083, 95% CI -5,880 to -287). There was little change to quality adjusted survival.CONCLUSIONS:
CGA HAH is a cost-effective alternative to admission to hospital for selected older people.Palavras-chave
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Avaliação Geriátrica
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Hospitalização
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Health_economic_evaluation
Limite:
Aged
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Age Ageing
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido