Are weekend inpatient rehabilitation services value for money? An economic evaluation alongside a randomized controlled trial with a 30 day follow up

BMC Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Brusco, Natasha K ^a,b   Watts, Jennifer J ^c   Shields, Nora ^a,d   Taylor, Nicholas F ^a,e  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CABRINI INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NORTHERN HEALTH   (Australia)

^e Allied Health Clinical Research Office   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allied health; Economic evaluation; Randomized controlled trial; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REHABILITATION; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEW ZEALAND; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TIME;

ADULT; AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; REHABILITATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84902297166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-12-89     Document Type: Article

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