Incremental benefits and cost of coordinated anxiety learning and management for anxiety treatment in primary care.
Incremental benefits and cost of coordinated anxiety learning and management for anxiety treatment in primary care.
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DOI:
10.1017/s0033291711002893
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发表时间:
2012-09
影响因子:
6.9
通讯作者:
Roy-Byrne, P.
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Joesch, J. M.;Sherbourne, C. D.;Sullivan, G.;Stein, M. B.;Craske, M. G.;Roy-Byrne, P.
Improving the quality of mental health care requires integrating successful research interventions into “real-world” practice settings. Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management (CALM) is a treatment-delivery model for anxiety disorders encountered in primary care. CALM offers cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), medication, or both; non-expert care managers assisting primary care clinicians with adherence promotion and medication optimization; computer-assisted CBT delivery; and outcome monitoring. This study describes incremental benefits, costs, and net benefits of CALM versus usual care. The CALM randomized, controlled effectiveness trial was conducted in 17 primary care clinics in 4 US cities from 2006 to 2009. Of 1,062 eligible patients, 1,004 English- or Spanish-speaking patients age 18–75 years with panic, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and/or posttraumatic stress disorder with or without major depression were randomized. Anxiety-free days, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), and expenditures for outpatient visits, emergency room visits, inpatient stays, and psychiatric medications were estimated based on blinded telephone assessments at baseline, 6, 12, and 18 months. Over 18 months, CALM participants, on average, experienced 57.1 more anxiety-free days [95% confidence interval (CI) 31–83] and $245 additional medical expenses (95% CI $ −733 to $1,223). The mean incremental net benefit of CALM versus usual care was positive when an anxiety-free day was valued ≥ $4. For QALYs based on the Short-Form Health Survey-12 and the EQ-5D the mean incremental net benefit was positive at ≥ $5,000. Compared with usual care, CALM provides significant benefits with modest increases in health care expenditures.