Erratum to: A comprehensive grid to evaluate case management’s expected effectiveness for community-dwelling frail older people: results from a multiple, embedded case study
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Author details IRSS, Institute of Health and Society, Université catholique de Louvain clos Chapelle-aux-Champs, 30.13 B-1200 Brussels, Belgium. Faculty of Medicine and Health Care Sciences, Universiteit Antwerpen Universiteitsplein, 1 B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium. Faculty of Public Health Université de Liège Avenue de l’hôpital, 3 B-4000 Liège, Belgium. LUCAS, Centre for Care Research and Consultancy KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Kapucijnenvoer 39, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
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A comprehensive grid to evaluate case management’s expected effectiveness for community-dwelling frail older people: results from a multiple, embedded case study
BACKGROUND Case management is a type of intervention expected to improve the quality of care and therefore the quality of life of frail, community-dwelling older people while delaying institutionalisation in nursing homes. However, the heterogeneity, multidimensionality and complexity of these interventions make their evaluation by the means of classical approaches inadequate. Our objective was...
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