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| Cost-effectiveness of multi-component interventions to prevent delirium in older people admitted to medical wards | | Author(s) | Anayo Akunne, Lakshmi Murthy, John Young |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 41, no 3, May 2012 |
| Pages | pp 285-291 |
| Source | http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.bgs.org.uk/ |
| Keywords | Confusion ; Medical wards ; In-patients ; Preventative medicine ; Cost effectiveness. |
| Annotation | Evidence suggests that delirium incidence can be reduced in older patients admitted to medical wards using multi-component interventions that target delirium risk factors, however the cost-effectiveness of this approach is uncertain. Thus a novel cost-effectiveness model for delirium prevention was developed. The study compared multi-component delirium prevention intervention with usual care using a model based on a decision tree analysis. The model was used to estimate the incremental net monetary benefit (INMB). The robustness of the cost-effectiveness result was explored using deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analyses. Findings suggested that the multi-component prevention intervention was cost-effective when compared with usual care. Multi-component prevention interventions for delirium should be considered as a cost-effective health care strategy for medically ill people admitted to hospital. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120511001 A |
| Classmark | EDC: LD4: LF7: LK2: WEC |
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