Valuing Quality in Aged Care: A Cost-Benefit Framework for interRAI Implementation

Loading...
Thumbnail Image
File version

Version of Record (VoR)

Author(s)
Comans, Tracy
Kenny, Danelle
Balasooriya, Namal N
de Almeida Mello, Johanna
Gray, Leonard C
Welch, Alyssa
Griffith University Author(s)
Primary Supervisor
Other Supervisors
Editor(s)
Date
2025
Size
File type(s)
Location
Abstract

Improving aged care quality is a global priority. Effective monitoring and evaluation systems are the mechanism through which this priority can be realized. The interRAI consortium offers an integrated clinical information system that spans multiple care settings to support quality improvement in clinical care, meeting policy, industry, and recipient needs. However, the economic value of implementing these systems remains unknown, complicated by challenges in monetizing relevant costs and benefits. Using Campbell and Brown’s cost-benefit methodology, we present a flexible framework to evaluate the cost-benefit of implementing interRAI as a minimum dataset for aged care, focused on the cost-benefit domain of care quality. Our framework provides a comprehensive foundation for cost-benefit analysis of interRAI implementation. It presents an informative starting-point for high-level decision-makers to reliably estimate the value of implementing integrated clinical information systems at multiple levels.

Journal Title

Healthcare Management Forum

Conference Title
Book Title
Edition
Volume
Issue
Thesis Type
Degree Program
School
Publisher link
Patent number
Funder(s)
Grant identifier(s)
Rights Statement
Rights Statement

© 2025 The Canadian College of Health Leaders. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

Item Access Status
Note

This publication has been entered in Griffith Research Online as an advance online version.

Access the data
Related item(s)
Subject

Health policy

Aged health care

Health services and systems

Persistent link to this record
Citation

Comans, T; Kenny, D; Balasooriya, NN; de Almeida Mello, J; Gray, LC; Welch, A, Valuing Quality in Aged Care: A Cost-Benefit Framework for interRAI Implementation, Healthcare Management Forum, 2025

Collections