Observational studyAtencion primaria
[Every week counts: Use of health services and related costs of a community-based cohort of people with advanced chronic diseases].
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- Cost of illness analysis of frailty for older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European geriatric medicine · 2025Pooled it
- [The use of resources and health expenditures by people with advanced chronic diseases in Catalonia].Atencion primaria · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo describe the use of health resources of people with advanced chronicity, quantifying and characterizing its cost to suggest improvements in health care models.
designObservational, analytical and prospective study during 3 years of a cohort of people with advanced chronicity. LOCATION: Three primary care teams (EAP) of Osona, Cataluña.
participants224 people identified as advanced patients through a systematic population strategy. MAIN MEASUREMENTS: Age, sex, type of home, end-of-life trajectory; use, type and cost of resources in primary care, emergencies, palliative teams or hospitalization (in acute or intermediate care).
resultsPatients made an average of 1.1 admissions per year (average stay=6 days), 74% in intermediate care hospitals. They lived in the community 93.4% of time, carrying out 1 weekly contact with the EAP (45.1% home care). The average daily cost was 19.4euros, the main chapters were intermediate care hospitalizations (36.5%), EAP activity (29.4%) and admissions in acute hospitals (28.6%). Factors determining a potential lower cost are frailty/dementia as trajectory (p<0.001), living in a nursing-home facility (p<0.001) and over-aging (p<0.001). There are certain differences in the behavior of the EAP related to the global cost and to community resources (p<0.05).
conclusionsConsumption in intermediate hospitalization and primary care is more relevant than stays in acute care centers. Nursing-homes and home-care strategies are important to attend effectively and efficiently, especially when primary care teams get ready for it.
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