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ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Making the Invisible Companion of People with Dementia Visible in Economic Studies: What Can We Learn from Social Science?

Kim-Huong Nguyen, Tracy Comans

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Review in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kim-Huong NguyenCentre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2592-9372
Tracy ComansCentre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2840-3496

Funding

National Health and Medical Research Council APP1136820
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dyadic perspective is important to understand the mutual influence and interdependence of both the person living with dementia and their care partner. This perspective is routinely adopted in social research programs for dementia and many dyadic interventions have been developed. However, economic evaluation and modelling to date has often failed to incorporate caregivers' perspectives, and their respective costs and outcomes while giving care for the person with dementia. On the occasions that this has been done, caregivers were represented as "informal costs" associated with dementia. This limited perspective cannot incorporate two-way interactions of the dyad in economic evaluations of dementia programs. This paper provides an overview of the possible interactions between people living with dementia and care partners as discovered in social science literature in the past 20 years. We demonstrate the strength of the relationships and discuss strategies for incorporating the dyadic perspective in economic evaluations of dementia programs in the future.

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correlationdementiadyadic perspectiveeconomic evaluationhealth outcomesinteractionpath analysisquality of liferegressionscoping review

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PMID33466492
PMCPMC7824847

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