| Title |
Calculating the return on investment of mobile healthcare
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, June 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-7-27 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nancy E Oriol, Paul J Cote, Anthony P Vavasis, Jennifer Bennet, Darien DeLorenzo, Philip Blanc, Isaac Kohane |
| Abstract |
Mobile health clinics provide an alternative portal into the healthcare system for the medically disenfranchised, that is, people who are underinsured, uninsured or who are otherwise outside of mainstream healthcare due to issues of trust, language, immigration status or simply location. Mobile health clinics as providers of last resort are an essential component of the healthcare safety net providing prevention, screening, and appropriate triage into mainstream services. Despite the face value of providing services to underserved populations, a focused analysis of the relative value of the mobile health clinic model has not been elucidated. The question that the return on investment algorithm has been designed to answer is: can the value of the services provided by mobile health programs be quantified in terms of quality adjusted life years saved and estimated emergency department expenditures avoided? |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Andorra | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 156 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 46 | 29% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 12% |
| Researcher | 15 | 9% |
| Other | 13 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 12 | 7% |
| Other | 28 | 17% |
| Unknown | 28 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 46 | 29% |
| Social Sciences | 16 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 15 | 9% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 9 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 30 | 19% |
| Unknown | 37 | 23% |
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