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Efficacy of a stepped collaborative care intervention for comorbid cancer and depression: Health care utilization and costs
e18348 Background: The aims of this study were to test the efficacy of a stepped collaborative care intervention for comorbid cancer and depression on outcomes including complication rates, health care utilization and costs. Methods: Patients diagnosed with cancer were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial testing the efficacy of a stepped collaborative care intervention. Patients were administered a battery of questionnaires prior to randomization. Rates and severity of surgical complications, health care utilization and costs were collected for a one-year period after randomization. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square analyses, and Ordered Restricted Inference analyses were performed. Results: Of the 100 patients, the mean age was 64.0 (SD = 10.3), the majority of the patients were male (51%), Caucasian (89%), diagnosed with hepatocellular or cholangiocarcinoma (47%) and stage III and IV (60%). For patients less than 75 years, patients randomized to the collaborative care intervention had lower rates of complications after surgery [Χ2= 5.45, P = 0.02]. We observed that 16% of patients randomized to the collaborative care intervention had complications versus 66.7% of the patients in the screening and referral arm. For patients who survived 6 months or less, those who were randomized to the collaborative care intervention had lower rates of 90-day readmissions than patients randomized to the screening and referral arm [Χ2= 4.0, P = 0.046]. The patients randomized to the collaborative care intervention did not have any readmissions while 2 patients in the screening and referral arm were readmitted. Patients randomized to the collaborative care intervention arm had lower median costs associated with the loss of workforce productivity (3001; P = 0.07), hospital costs (21,109, P = 0.09), and cost per hospital registration (2219, P = 0.07) when compared to the screening and referral arm. Conclusions: The stepped collaborative care intervention not only reduced depressive symptoms, but patients randomized to this intervention had lower complication rates, health care utilization, loss of work productivity, and hospital related costs. Clinical trial information: NCT02939755