SA HealthPlus: A controlled trial of a statewide application of a generic model of chronic illness care
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2007
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Battersby, M.
Harvey, P.
Mills, P.
Kalucy, E.
Pols, R.
Frith, P.
McDonald, P.
Esterman, A.
Tsourtos, G.
Donato, R.
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Milbank Quarterly, 2007; 85(1):37-67
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Malcolm Battersby, Peter Harvey, P. David Mills, Elizabeth Kalucy, R.G. Pols, Peter A. Frith, Peter McDonald, Adrian Esterman, George Tsourtos, Ronald Donato, Rodney Pearce, and Christopher McGowan
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SA HealthPlus, one of nine national Australian coordinated care trials, addressed chronic illness care by testing whether coordinated care would improve health outcomes at the cost of usual care. SA HealthPlus compared a generic model of coordinated care for 3,115 intervention patients with the usual care for 1,488 controls. Service coordinators and the behavioral and care-planning approach were new. The health status (SF-36) in six of eight projects improved, and those patients who had been hospitalized in the year immediately preceding the trial were the most likely to save on costs. A mid-trial review found that health benefits from coordinated care depended more on patients’ self-management than the severity of their illness, a factor leading to the Flinders Model of Self-Management Support.
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Copyright © 2007 Milbank Memorial Fund and Cambridge University Press
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