The aim of this thesis was to examine the cost-effectiveness of specific advanced home care and home rehabilitation interventions and to improve economic evaluation methods when applied to advanced home care. This included a comparison of two alternative ways of administering oxygen at home to patients with chronic hypoxaemia…
Contents
Introduction
Terminology related to home care
Advanced home care in Sweden
Increased interest in advanced home care – why?
Economic consequences of advanced home care
Methodological issues in economic evaluations of advaced home care
The informal caregiver
Economic evaluation – a brief description
The identification phase
The quantification phase
The valuation phase
Summary and study questions
Aims
Questions and methods
Study overview
Paper I
Study background
Method
Data analysis
Paper II
Study background
Method
Paper III
Study background
Method
Data analysis
Paper IV
Study background
Method
Data input and demarcations
Data input in the models based on the friction cost model
Data input in the models based on the human capital approach
Models based on the friction cost model
Models based on the human capital approach 32Paper V
Study background
Method
Costs
Data analysis
Results
Papers
Factors influencing informal care costs
Discussion
Evaluation of oxygen therapy at home
Literature review regarding home rehabilitation after stroke
The redistribution of costs and care efforts in stroke rehabilitation
The costing of informal care
Conclusions…..
Author: Andersson, Agneta
Source: Linköping University
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