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Abstract
Background
Community nurses delivering heart failure self-care education improve patient outcomes, but the cost-effectiveness of this type of nurse-led intervention has not been recently established.
Aim
To determine the cost-effectiveness of community nurses’ self-care education for heart failure patients compared with usual care.
Methods
We performed a cost-effectiveness analysis from the perspective of the Italian National Health Service. A Markov model simulated the progression of a cohort of 1000 heart failure patients receiving remote self-care education after hospital discharge or usual care. Outcomes included costs, quality-adjusted life years, and incremental cost-effectiveness ratio. The willingness-to-pay threshold was established at €40,000/quality-adjusted life years.
Findings
Over the 20-year time horizon, community nurses’ care incurred an extra cost of €1.3 million while gaining 247 quality-adjusted life years compared with usual care, and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was €5490/quality-adjusted life years.
Conclusions
The involvement of community nurses in self-care education is a potential cost-effective way of delivering home self-care education to heart failure patients.
期刊介绍:
Collegian: The Australian Journal of Nursing Practice, Scholarship and Research is the official journal of Australian College of Nursing (ACN).
The journal aims to reflect the broad interests of nurses and the nursing profession, and to challenge nurses on emerging areas of interest. It publishes research articles and scholarly discussion of nursing practice, policy and professional issues.
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The journal, online only from 2016, is available to members of ACN and also by separate subscription.
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