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Table 5 Cost effectiveness evaluation: Data collection health care volumes and prices

From: Evaluation design of a reactivation care program to prevent functional loss in hospitalised elderly: A cohort study including a randomised controlled trial

Outcome variables

Data collection methods

Data collection times

Notes

  

T0

T1

T2

 

Health care volumes

     

Period hospital admission:

Hospital registries

Time of hospital discharge

+ during inclusion

   - amount of hospital days (days admitted)

Hospital registries

Time of hospital discharge

 

   - total days/time admitted at ICU

Hospital registries

Time of hospital discharge

 

   - amount of consults medical/paramedical

Hospital registries

Time of hospital discharge

 

   - amount of large scans and diagnostics

Hospital registries

Time of hospital discharge

 

   - amount of large treatments/operations

Hospital registries

Time of hospital discharge

 

   - wrong bed days

Hospital registries

Time of hospital discharge

 

   - amount of days admitted

Hospital registries

Time of hospital discharge

 

   - amount of consults medical/paramedical

Hospital registries, interviews personnel

Time of hospital discharge

+ during inclusion

   - time/amount of multidisciplinary meetings

Hospital registries, interviews personnel

Time of hospital discharge

+ during inclusion

Health care utilization patient in periods before and after hospital stay

Interview patient and mailed paper questionnaire primary caregiver

X

X

X

 

   - homecare/nursing home/etc

     

Average time per consult

Interviews professionals (sample)

During inclusion period

 

Amount informal care

MDS + questionnaire informal caregiver

X

X

X

Amount in hours

Amount (multidisciplinary) coordination

Interviews professionals

   

Amount in hours

Health care prices

     

   price per hospital day

DBC information + manual cost research

Retrospective

Similar calculations for prices hospital, CPH, care hotels etc.

   price per day/hour admitted at ICU

DBC information + manual cost research

    

   price of consults medical/paramedical

DBC information + manual cost research

    

   price of large scans and diagnostics

DBC information + manual cost research

    

   price of large treatments/operations

DBC information + manual cost research

    

   costs of home care/other care

Integral costs per product cluster

Retrospective

 

   costs informal care by primary caregiver

Market price/missed wages & time

Retrospective

 

   travel costs (average)

Literature

Retrospective

 
  1. *T0 = within 48 hours of hospital admission; T1 = 3 months after hospital admission; T2 = 12 months after hospital admission.