Impact of a chronic disease self-management program on health care utilization in rural communities: a retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data.

CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to examine health care use following participation in the CDSMP in a Canadian population and to use administrative data to measure health care utilization. Similar to other studies that used self-report measures to evaluate health care use we found no differences in health care utilization before and after participation in the CDSMP. Future research needs to confirm our findings and examine the impact of the CDSMP on health care utilization in different age groups to help to determine whether these interventions are more effective with select population groups.
PMID: 24885135 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Rural Remote Health - June 5, 2014 Category: Rural Health Authors: Jaglal SB, Guilcher SJ, Hawker G, Lou W, Salbach NM, Manno M, Zwarenstein M Tags: BMC Health Serv Res Source Type: research