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ArticleHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2025

Impacts of Homecare Investments in Alberta: Ecological and Economic Trend Analysis.

Max Jajszczok, Cathy A Eastwood, Mingshan Lu, Ceara Cunningham, Hude Quan

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Article in Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Provincial Leadership and Green Shoots: Where to Look for Innovation.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Max JajszczokResearcher, Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Executive Lead Island Health, Rural Remote, Clinical Operations and Strategy, Clinical Service Planning, Value-Based Healthcare, Victoria, BC.
Cathy A EastwoodAdjunct Professor, Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
Mingshan LuAssociate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Faculty Member, O'Brien Institute of Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
Ceara CunninghamAdjunct Associate Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
Hude QuanProfessor, Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

No standardized cost-based homecare-specific indicators are used provincially or nationally in Canada. We trended and portrayed Alberta's homecare costs and health system usage between 2015-16 and 2019-20. In addition, we conducted a cost-effectiveness ratio analysis. Total avoided acute care utilization was estimated at 346.2 thousand in-patient days. With $240.3 million in homecare investments above general growth, our cost-effectiveness ratio is 694:1. Application of these cost-based indicators reveals that homecare programs improve system cost-effectiveness. These indicators can assist health-system policy makers in understanding how systems are structured, specifically in achieving the goal of sustaining the publicly funded health system.

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Home Care ServicesInvestmentsAlbertaCost-Benefit AnalysisHumansPattern Analysis, Machine

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PMID40624866
PMCPMC12280357

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