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Title: Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of ambulatory heart failure nurse-led services: an integrated review.
Austin Authors: Driscoll, Andrea ;Gao, Lan;Watts, Jennifer J
Affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University, 1 Gheringhap Street, Geelong, VIC, 3220, Australia..
Cardiology
School of Health Economics, Deakin University, 1 Gheringhap Street, Geelong, VIC, 3220, Australia..
Issue Date: 22-Feb-2022
Date: 2022
Publication information: BMC cardiovascular disorders 2022; 22(1): 64
Abstract: Globally the burden of heart failure is rising. Hospitalisation is one of the main contributors to the burden of heart failure and unfortunately, the majority of heart failure patients will experience multiple hospitalisations over their lifetime. Considering the high health care cost associated with heart failure, a review of economic evaluations of post-discharge heart failure services is warranted. An integrated review of the economic evaluations of post-discharge nurse-led heart failure services for patients hospitalised with acute heart failure. Electronic databases were searched using EBSCOHost: CINAHL complete, Medline complete, Embase, Scopus, EconLit, Global Health, and Health source (Consumer and Nursing/Academic) for published articles until 22nd June 2021. The searches focussed on papers that examined the cost-effectiveness of nurse-led clinics or telemonitoring involving nurses to follow-up patients after hospitalisation for acute heart failure. GRADE criteria and CHEERS checklist were used to determine the quality of the evidence and the quality of reporting of the economic evaluation. Out of 453 studies identified, eight studies were included: four in heart failure clinics and four in telemonitoring programs. Five of the articles were cost-effectiveness analyses, one a cost comparison and two studies involved economic modelling The GRADE criteria were rated as high in five studies. In which, four studies examined the cost-effectiveness of telemonitoring programs. Based on the CHEERS checklist for reporting quality of economic evaluations, the majority of economic evaluations were rated between 86 and 96%. All the studies found the intervention to be cost-effective compared to usual care with Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratios ranging from $18 259 (Canadian dollars)/life year gained to €40,321 per Quality Adjusted Life Years gained. Nurse-led heart failure clinics and telemonitoring programs were found to be cost-effective. Certainly, this review has shown that heart failure clinics and telemonitoring programs do represent value for money with their greatest impact and cost savings through reducing rehospitalisations.
URI: https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/28906
DOI: 10.1186/s12872-022-02509-9
ORCID: 0000-0002-6837-0249
Journal: BMC cardiovascular disorders
PubMed URL: 35193503
PubMed URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35193503/
Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Cardiac failure
Clinics
Cost benefit analysis
Cost-effectiveness
Economic evaluation
Heart failure
Nursing
Remote monitoring
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