2. Health utility will be measured at baseline, 6 and 12 months using the EQ-5D [ 28]. 3. Service Use Questionnaire will be used to measure service utilisation at baseline, 6 and 12 months.
Secondary outcome measures include; Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test AUDITT) score, quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption, health-related quality of life measures, service utilisation, and patient experience.
15 During this study we are measuring the health service utilisation by patients in both phases and will conduct a cost utility analysis to determine whether the patients in the intervention group experience better outcomes during and after treatment compared with the patients in the usual care group as measured by the incremental cost per QALY.
Regression models were used to measure the association between patient, GP and practice characteristics, with FFS per patient used as a measure of service utilisation.
The core measure of service utilisation in Theme 1 was use of hospital services, to support a business care for the adoption of telemonitoring technologies in the United Kingdom.
This was assessed as a measure of health service utilisation.
Further insights into these relationships may be obtained by exploring the relationships between a wider range of characteristics of primary medical services and population health indicators and measures of health service utilisation.
This paper therefore presents results of analyses which aimed to determine how different primary medical services access variables were associated with population health indicators and measures of health service utilisation after adjusting for socio-economic deprivation.
We also extracted data on other outcomes, including measures of: health service utilisation; health status; attitude or satisfaction of vulnerable population; costs of the interventions; and any reported adverse effects.
Clinical triallists assess a treatment under evaluation according to specific clinical 'endpoints', typically mortality or morbidity, or some measure of health service utilisation, such as length of hospital stay; similar endpoints have become the standard set in national frameworks [ 1] and college guidelines [ 2].
