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Providing alternatives to long-stay hospital care for frail elderly patients: is it cost effective?
- Author:
- CHALLIS David
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 7(11), November 1992, pp.773-781.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Identifies problems faced in attempting to analyse the relative cost-effectiveness of long-stay hospital care and community care: comparisons of average costs often ignore the substantial variation of the costs of individuals within settings; excessive weight is placed on those factors more easily measured than those that indicate quality or effectiveness. Considers studies that have attempted to cost alternatives to long-stay hospital care for the frail elderly and of case management, and at lessons that can be learnt from other countries experiences in this area.