Cost-effectiveness analysis of an innovative model of care for chronic wounds patients.

Autor: Brain D; Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia.; Wound Management Innovations Cooperative Research Centre, Brisbane, Australia., Tulleners R; Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia.; Wound Management Innovations Cooperative Research Centre, Brisbane, Australia., Lee X; Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia., Cheng Q; Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia.; Wound Management Innovations Cooperative Research Centre, Brisbane, Australia., Graves N; Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia.; Wound Management Innovations Cooperative Research Centre, Brisbane, Australia., Pacella R; Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia.; Wound Management Innovations Cooperative Research Centre, Brisbane, Australia.; The University of Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2019 Mar 06; Vol. 14 (3), pp. e0212366. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Mar 06 (Print Publication: 2019).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212366
Abstrakt: Current provision of services for the care of chronic wounds in Australia is disjointed and costly. There is large variability in the way that services are provided, and little evidence regarding the cost-effectiveness of a specialist model of care for treatment and management. A decision-analytic model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a specialist wound care clinic as compared to usual care for chronic wounds is presented. We use retrospective and prospective data from a cohort of patients as well as information from administrative databases and published literature. Our results show specialist wound clinics are cost-effective for the management of chronic wounds. On average, specialist clinics were $3,947 cheaper than usual clinics and resulted in a quality adjusted life year gain of 0.04 per patient, per year. Specialist clinics were the best option under multiple scenarios including a different cost perspective and when the cost of a hospital admission was reduced. Current models of care are inefficient and represent low value care, and specialist wound clinics represent a good investment compared to current approaches for the management of chronic wounds in Australia.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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