Project Lead: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Authors: Katharina Buzath, Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Publication: September 2023
Language: German (with English summary)
Community Nursing is a new model of care in Austria to strengthen the health of the elderly population. The literature review examines the cost-effectiveness of the concept and methods for presenting it. The results are inconclusive. The use of community nursing tends not to be cost-effective in the eleven identified studies, but methodological limitations may have biased the results. The studies are also older and largely not from Europe. Further research using more recent methodological findings from research on complex interventions and evaluation of public health interventions is needed.