Trial reportJournal of the American Heart Association2024
Evaluation of Cost-Effectiveness of a Virtual Multidisciplinary Stroke Care Clinic for Community-Dwelling Survivors of Stroke.
Trial report in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Identifying and Comparing Intervention Cost Components in Remote Patient Monitoring: A Scoping Review.PharmacoEconomics · 2026Article
- Online Community Support for Stroke Survivors and Caregivers: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Economic evaluations of outpatient stroke rehabilitation models: a systematic review of evidence, methods, and gaps.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Article
- Health economic evaluations of digital health technologies-a rapid review of applied methods.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Review
- Narrative Review on Post-Stroke Outcomes Through Recognition of Frailty, Sarcopenia, and Palliative Care Needs.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Multidisciplinary Telemedicine in Healthcare During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Narrative Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Retrospective Analysis of the Impact of a Collaborative Multidisciplinary Care Model on the Efficiency of Emergency Care and Neurological Function and Prognosis of Comatose Patients With Emergency Cerebral Hemorrhage.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Early brain-heart health manager-led multidimensional rehabilitation improves functional and psychosocial outcomes in hemorrhagic stroke: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundA technologically integrated, multidisciplinary approach to stroke rehabilitation service was delivered and embedded into conventional health care practice. This article reports an evaluation of cost-effectiveness analysis of a new Virtual Multidisciplinary Stroke Care Clinic (VMSCC) service for community-dwelling survivors of stroke. METHODS AND
resultsA randomized controlled trial was conducted. Adults with a first/recurrent ischemic/hemorrhagic stroke were recruited from 10 hospitals. Eligible participants were randomly assigned to receive the VMSCC service (individual virtual consultations with a registered nurse, home blood pressure telemonitoring, and unlimited access to an online resource platform) plus usual care or usual care alone. Cost-effectiveness analyses were performed based on incremental cost-effectiveness ratios expressed as incremental cost per emergency admission reduced, and day of hospitalization reduced over the study period. A total of 256 participants (intervention group n=141 versus control group n=115) with complete cost and health care use data were included in the cost-effectiveness analyses. The VMSCC service, on average, resulted in a greater reduction in the number of emergency admission (-0.06 [95% bootstrapped CI, -0.14 to 0.01]) and fewer days of hospitalization (-0.08, [95% bootstrapped CI -0.40 to 0.24]) but incurred a higher total cost of HK$375 (95% bootstrapped CI, -2103 to 2743) compared with the usual care. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratios of the VMSCC service compared with the usual care were HK$6070 and HK$4826 per an emergency admission and a day of hospital stay reduced respectively.
conclusionsThe study provides preliminary but not confirmative evidence that the VMSCC service could be more effective but more costly than usual care in reducing health service use. REGISTRATION: URL: https://www.chictr.org.cn. Unique identifier: ChiCTR1800016101.
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