[PDF] Top 20 Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical and Cost-Effectiveness of a System of Longer-Term Stroke Care

... All cost and QALY data are reported as mean values with standard ...a cluster randomisation design, differences in costs and QALYs between groups were tested by multi level modelling using the xtreg ... See full document

... complete cost and European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions data and 589 ...complete cost and GHQ-12 ...social care costs (Table 5). Informal care costs increased after baseline and were ... See full document

... patient-focused care is a major chal- lenge to healthcare systems such as the UK National Health Service (NHS), especially given the increased and increasing ...of care from hospital to general practice ... See full document

... of care use (long-term and ...of care, yet in psychiatric care people may also become accustomed to using ...long term or high care ...the system, since they neither fit ... See full document

... [31]. Trial participation may be terminated at any time during the trial through voluntary refusal to con- tinue or in cases of significant clinical deterioration as judged by ...from ... See full document

... intermediate care clinics for diabetes to support the care of patients in UK primary care, and the costs associated with any improvements in outcomes ...quality care through a ... See full document

... in care in the range of 4 to 12% for educational meetings (includ- ing interactive and didactic [25]), educational outreach [41], local opinion leaders [42], audit and feedback [43], and computerized reminders ... See full document

... incremental cost-effectiveness ra- tios for PHQ-9 depression and WHO-DAS disability scores level will be ...health system responsiveness to convert WHO-DAS summary score to a health state preference ... See full document

... enhance effectiveness of ANC interventions has mainly been on improving health ser- vices for better health ...the clinical settings, evidence has also shown that community-based health intervention ... See full document

... The duration of our intervention, 6 months, may have limited our findings in two ways. First, the effect of re- minders related to situations that require a longer reso- lution time might have been diminished. One ... See full document

... Stepped care is a promising approach for improved de- pression care [12,14,15], a concept recommended in na- tional and international guidelines ...Stepped care is based on treating patients with the ... See full document

... the cost-effectiveness of nutritional support among frail older ...health care costs than usual care, due to the additional staff and assistance of physiotherapist, registered dietician, ... See full document

... Measuring cost-effectiveness in terms of costs per QALYs will allow the intervention to be compared with many alter- native uses of existing NHS ...and stroke, diabetes mellitus type 2, ... See full document

... All general practices in participating PCTs were invited to take part. Randomisation was undertaken by an independent clinical trials unit after written agreement had been obtained. Randomisa- tion was stratified ... See full document

... a cluster randomized control trial (cRCT) to compare children ’ s social behaviors and stress levels in pre- and post-intervention according to whether they received a social skill training ... See full document

... medical care, in case of worsening of symptoms, and after a hospital admission or emergency room ...health care providers such as the participant’s general practitioner, ... See full document

... tional care program for hospital discharged patients mainly used healthcare professionals as key providers, and the outcome measures were confined to clinical and health ...a ... See full document

... typical cost-effectiveness evaluations, in some cases, the effects of combined interventions might be the same with the effect of individual interventions alone; and subsequently, the incremental effect ... See full document

... usual care in two ways. The first is that usual care is limited and often restricted to NICE recom- mended cognitive stimulation therapy which would not be readily influenced by training in delivery of JtD, ... See full document

... The economic evaluation is performed alongside the ran- domized clinical trial. Patients will complete question- naires for costs and quality of life after 6 weeks and every 3 months. Only if the difference ... See full document