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Table 4 Health/Wellbeing and Experience Outcomesd: within and between group differences at 6 months

From: Evaluating an integrated care pathway for frail elderly patients in Norway using multi-criteria decision analysis

Core set of outcomes included in the MCDA (N = 336)

Estimated change HCPC

Mean

Estimated change usual care

Mean

Diff. in change

Mean

(95% CI)a

Health/wellbeing

 Physical functioning

−0.067

−0.041

−0.026

(−0.822; 0.769)

 Psychological well-being

2.022

−2.803

4.825

(−7.380; 17.03)

 Social relations & participation

0.608

1.163

−0.555

(− 2445; 1.335)

 Enjoyment of life

0.163

−0.034

0.197

(−0.304; 0.697)

 Resilience

0.555

−1.529

2.084b

(−0.080; 4.249)

Experience of care

 Person-centeredness

−0.374

−1.087

0.713

(−1.557; 2.984)

 Continuity of care

0.025

0.078

−0.054

(− 0.297; 0.190)

Cost

 Health and social care cost (in Euro)

− 8170.3

− 5170.8

− 2999.4

(− 9607.6; 3608.8)

Programme-specific outcomes included in the MCDAd

Estimated change integrated care

Mean

Estimated change usual care

Mean

Diff. in change Mean (95% CI)a

Autonomy (N = 336)

−0.946

1.971

−2.917c

(−5.245; − 0.589)

Burden of medication (N = 328)

− 0.280

− 0.514

0.234

(− 0.758;1.226)

Informal care cost (in Euro) (N = 336)

− 1512.0

585.3

−2097.3b

(−41,713.0; 1002.2

  1. aBased on robust SE; b and c indicate the level of significance at 10 and 5% respectively
  2. Average exchange rate in 2019, 1 Euro = NOK 9.8527
  3. dA negative sign means an improvement for Physical functioning and a postivive sign means a deterioration on social relationship and participation and burden of medication (see Table 1 for the the outcome’s scale range)