The CARE Plus study - a whole-system intervention to improve quality of life of primary care patients with multimorbidity in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation: Exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial and cost-utility analysis

BMC Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Mercer, Stewart W ^a   Fitzpatrick, Bridie ^a   Guthrie, Bruce ^b   Fenwick, Elisabeth ^a   Grieve, Eleanor ^a   Lawson, Kenny ^a   Boyer, Nicki ^a   McConnachie, Alex ^a   Lloyd, Suzanne M ^a   O'Brien, Rosaleen ^c   Watt, Graham C M ^a   Wyke, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Care plan; Complex intervention; Deprivation; Empathy; General practice; Longer consultations; Mindfulness; Multimorbidity; Primary care; Socioeconomic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSULTATION; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; EFFECT SIZE; EMPATHY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINDFULNESS; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGISTRATION; SELF CARE; WELLBEING; AGED; COMORBIDITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84979030681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0634-2     Document Type: Article

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