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| Cost-benefit analysis of a case management project for the community-dwelling frail elderly in Hong Kong | | Author(s) | Antony Chi-tat Leung, Chi-pun Liu, Nelson Wing-sun Chow |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 23, no 1, March 2004 |
| Pages | pp 70-85 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Case work ; Medical care ; Management [care] ; Living in the community ; Cost benefit analysis ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | Findings are presented from a randomised controlled trial of a case management project for community-dwelling frail older patients discharged from hospital in Hong Kong. Case managers provided integrated care to participants in an intervention group, while participants in the control group received conventional care only. Minimum Data Set - Home Care (MDS-HC) was used to assess health conditions, while hospital admissions were used as the basis for calculating health care costs. After the intervention, hospital admissions were reduced by 36.5% in the intervention group, and by 20.4% in the control group. The total number of acute bed-days decreased by 53.1% in the intervention group compared to 4.4% in the control group. Compared with the control group, US$170,448 was saved in acute hospital care and community health services to the intervention group. Well-planned case management interventions reduced hospital admissions and the length of stay in hospitals with corresponding savings to total health care costs. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040909231 A |
| Classmark | IGA: LK: QA: K4: WEA: 7DR |
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