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Is comprehensive geriatric assessment hospital at home a cost-effective alternative to hospital admission for older people?
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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 2:1 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.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/ageing/afab220
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Age and Ageing More from this journal
- Volume:
- 51
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- afab220
- Publication date:
- 2021-12-31
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-08-13
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1468-2834
- ISSN:
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0002-0729
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English
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1191358
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pubs:1191358
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2021-08-17
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- Singh et al.
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- 2021
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- © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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