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| Examining the efficiency of home care | | Author(s) | Robert L Kane |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 11, no 3, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 322-340 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Home nursing ; Cost effectiveness ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The cost-effectiveness of home care is examined in this paper. Home care encompasses a range of services targeted to many populations, therefore it is necessary to consider case mix and clarify its goals to assess effectiveness. Goals for home care can be thought of as meeting and/or compensating for client dependency needs or making a difference in the client's clinical trajectory. The latter implies comparing actual to expected outcomes, where outcomes can cover a wide range of domains addressing quality of care and quality of life. Inferring the effect of treatment (i.e., home care) on various outcomes is likely to rely heavily on epidemiological techniques that, in turn, rely on sophisticated statistical techniques. Problems measuring the costs of care include how to handle the costs of informal care and deciding whose costs should be of primary concern. Better data about the costs, and experimentation with different forms of caregiving, need to be pursued. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990826239 A |
| Classmark | N: N4: WEC: 7T |
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