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The Gerontologist, Vol 37, Issue 3 324-332, Copyright © 1997 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Outpatient geriatric evaluation and management: is there an investment effect?

RW Toseland, JC O'Donnell, JB Engelhardt, J Richie, D Jue and SM Banks
Ringel Institute of Gerontology, School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, State University of New York 12222, USA.

The effectiveness and efficiency of outpatient geriatric evaluation and management (GEM) was compared to usual outpatient primary care (UPC). Although GEM had no overall impact on health care utilization or cost of care for the entire study period, significant reductions were found during the sixteen- to twenty-four-month study period, suggesting a possible investment effect. In the first eight months of the study, GEM patients incurred 34.8% more in health care costs than UPC patients, but in the final eight months of the study the cost of care for UPC patients exceeded that for GEM patients by 37.8%.


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