Costing interventions in primary care

Costing interventions in primary care.

Against a background of increasing demands on limited resources, studies that relate benefits of health interventions to the resources they consume will be an important part of any decision-making process in primary care, and an accurate assessment of costs will be an important part of any economic evaluation. Although there is no such thing as a gold standard cost estimate, there are a number ...

Costing orthopaedic interventions

Costing Psychiatric Interventions

The demands and needs for cost information in psychiatric contexts have multiplied considerably in recent years, but have often been frustrated by inadequate data. The typical costs data available to the policy maker, manager, clinical professional or researcher have been dominated until recently by age-old accounting practices and line management arrangements, and constrained by fragmentation ...

Interventions to implement prevention in primary care.

BACKGROUND Primary care physicians hold a strategic position in delivering preventive services. However discrepancies exist between evidence based guidelines and practice. OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of interventions to improve the delivery of preventive services in primary care. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group specialised regi...

Primary care Commentary: Early psychosocial interventions for low back pain in primary care

The paper by Jellema and colleagues is the first to attempt systematically to incorporate psychosocial management in the treatment of back pain by general practitioners in a primary care setting. The success of pain management programmes in “reversing” the impact of chronic incapacity in a proportion of patients with apparently intractable chronic pain has led to an interest in secondary preven...