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      Radiography on wheels arrives to nursing homes - an economic assessment of a new health care technology in southern Sweden.

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          The process of transferring older, vulnerable adults from an elder care facility to the hospital for medical care can be an emotionally and physically stressful experience. The recent development of modern mobile radiography may help to ease this anxiety by allowing for evaluation in the nursing home itself. Up until this point, no health economic evaluation of the technology has been attempted in a Swedish setting. The objective of this study was to determine whether examinations of patients in elder care facilities with mobile radiography were cost-effective from a societal perspective compared with hospital-based radiological examinations.

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          Journal
          J Eval Clin Pract
          Journal of evaluation in clinical practice
          Wiley
          1365-2753
          1356-1294
          Dec 2016
          : 22
          : 6
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Healthcare Governance, Region Skåne, Malmö, Sweden.
          [2 ] Medicine Service University Trust, Region Skåne, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Skåne University Hospital and Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
          [3 ] Department of Medical Imaging and Physiology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
          [4 ] Hospital Management, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.
          [5 ] Department of Radiology, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.
          [6 ] Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
          Article
          10.1111/jep.12590
          27412082
          4d658d72-337a-4701-acdd-668396c59986
          History

          mobile radiography,evaluation,cost-effectiveness,cost minimization technique,X-ray equipment,residential aged care

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