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A case management intervention targeted to reduce healthcare consumption for frequent Emergency Department visitors: results from an adaptive randomized trial.


ABSTRACT: A small group of frequent visitors to Emergency Departments accounts for a disproportionally large fraction of healthcare consumption including unplanned hospitalizations and overall healthcare costs. In response, several case and disease management programs aimed at reducing healthcare consumption in this group have been tested; however, results vary widely.To investigate whether a telephone-based, nurse-led case management intervention can reduce healthcare consumption for frequent Emergency Department visitors in a large-scale setup.A total of 12?181 frequent Emergency Department users in three counties in Sweden were randomized using Zelen's design or a traditional randomized design to receive either a nurse-led case management intervention or no intervention, and were followed for healthcare consumption for up to 2 years.The traditional design showed an overall 12% (95% confidence interval 4-19%) decreased rate of hospitalization, which was mostly driven by effects in the last year. Similar results were achieved in the Zelen studies, with a significant reduction in hospitalization in the last year, but mixed results in the early development of the project.Our study provides evidence that a carefully designed telephone-based intervention with accurate and systematic patient selection and appropriate staff training in a centralized setup can lead to significant decreases in healthcare consumption and costs. Further, our results also show that the effects are sensitive to the delivery model chosen.

SUBMITTER: Edgren G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5006795 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A case management intervention targeted to reduce healthcare consumption for frequent Emergency Department visitors: results from an adaptive randomized trial.

Edgren Gustaf G   Anderson Jacqueline J   Dolk Anders A   Torgerson Jarl J   Nyberg Svante S   Skau Tommy T   Forsberg Birger C BC   Werr Joachim J   Öhlen Gunnar G  

European journal of emergency medicine : official journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine 20161001 5


<h4>Background</h4>A small group of frequent visitors to Emergency Departments accounts for a disproportionally large fraction of healthcare consumption including unplanned hospitalizations and overall healthcare costs. In response, several case and disease management programs aimed at reducing healthcare consumption in this group have been tested; however, results vary widely.<h4>Objectives</h4>To investigate whether a telephone-based, nurse-led case management intervention can reduce healthcar  ...[more]

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