Results of a randomized controlled trial analyzing telemedically supported case management in the first year after living donor kidney transplantation - a budget impact analysis from the healthcare perspective.
Kaier K, Hils S, et al.Health Economics Review 2017; 7(1): 1.
Aims
To evaluate the costs and savings of a telemedicine and case-management intervention for kidney transplantation patients in the German healthcare system.
Interventions
Participants were randomly allocated to receive either standard aftercare or standard aftercare plus additional telemedically supported case management.
Participants
46 patients who were scheduled for a living-donor kidney transplantation.
Outcomes
Primary outcomes measured were six cost figures which included primary care physician visits, specialist consultant visits, unscheduled in-hospital care, scheduled in-hospital care, ambulatory visits at the university outpatient department and total costs of care.
Follow-up
12 months
CET Conclusions
No CET Conclusion
Data analysis
Strict intention-to-treat analysis
Quality notes
Previously assessed as Schmid A, at al. Telemedically-supported case management of living-donor renal transplant recipients to optimize routine evidence-based aftercare: A single-center randomized controlled trial. Am J Transplant. 2016. [epub ahead of print].
Trial registration
German Clinical Trials Register - DRKS00007634