Cost-effectiveness of Identification and Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS), a domestic violence training and support programme for primary care: a modelling study based on a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Identification and Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS) cluster randomised controlled trial tested the effectiveness of a training and support intervention to improve the response of primary care to women experiencing domestic violence (DV). The aim of this study is to estimate the cost-effectiveness of this intervention.

Design

Markov model-based cost-effectiveness analysis.

Setting

General practices in two urban areas in the UK.

Participants

Simulated female individuals from the general UK population who were registered at general practices, aged 16 years and older.

Intervention

General practices received staff training, prompts to ask women about DV embedded in the electronic medical record, a care pathway including referral to a specialist

SUBMITTER: Devine A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3383977 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature