The economic evaluation of Manitoba health lines in the management of congestive heart failure
| dc.contributor.author | Cui, Yang | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Katz, Alan (Community Health Sciences) Doupe, Malcolm (Community Health Sciences) Lobdell, Richard (Economics) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Forget, Evelyn (Community Health Sciences) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-08T15:12:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-09-08T15:12:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-09-08 | |
| dc.degree.discipline | Community Health Sciences | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Science (M.Sc.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This study was to examine whether the Manitoba Provincial Health Contact program for congestive heart failure is cost-effective and/or cost-benefit intervention relative to the standard treatment. The benefit-cost ratio was calculated in terms of the program cost and the cost savings from averted healthcare visits in order to determine whether the program would pay for itself. Then I conducted a cost-effectiveness study in which outcomes were measured in terms of QALYs derived from the SF-36. Bootstrap-resampled incremental cost-effectiveness ratios were computed to allow us to take into account the uncertainty related to small sample size. This intervention program generated a net saving of $28,307. The cost-effectiveness analysis suggests that the Health Lines intervention can generate an additional QALY for $26,486 and Health Line plus Monitoring for $70,266. The findings demonstrate that the Health Lines strategy for congestive heart failure holds great promise. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | October 2011 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4853 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Telehealth | en_US |
| dc.subject | Economic Evaluation | en_US |
| dc.title | The economic evaluation of Manitoba health lines in the management of congestive heart failure | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |