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Encouraging Best Practice in Residential Aged Care Program: Final Evaluation Report

10 - Cost Implications for Government and Aged Care Providers

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  • 10.1 - Cost implications for government
  • 10.2 - Cost implications for providers
  • 10.3 - Summary
EBPRAC is a complex program with several components, many of which interact in terms of their potential effects. Due to the nature of the evaluation and the information on the effectiveness of various components, the EBPRAC program can only be assessed indirectly from studies of similar interventions or from the opinions of key informants. Furthermore, many of the intended impacts have not been quantified, or would be extremely difficult to quantify. Several aspects of the impacts have a complicated causal relationship with potential health outcomes.

These factors severely limit the extent to which an economic evaluation can be performed. Therefore the principal aim of this section of the report is to identify the key cost implications of the program for government and providers, rather than undertake a full economic evaluation. Traditional economic evaluation methods (cost minimisation, cost effectiveness, cost utility or cost benefit analysis) are not feasible in a strict sense.
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