TY - JOUR AU - Platen, Moritz AU - Hoffmann, Wolfgang AU - Michalowsky, Bernhard TI - Comparing Different Implementation Strategies for Collaborative Dementia Care Management in Terms of Patients' Characteristics, Unmet Needs, and the Impact on Quality of Life and Costs in Germany. JO - PharmacoEconomics - open VL - 9 IS - 2 SN - 2509-4262 CY - [Cham] PB - Springer International Publishing M1 - DZNE-2025-00699 SP - 271 - 282 PY - 2025 AB - To compare the implementation of collaborative dementia care management (cDCM) across two settings regarding patients' characteristics, unmet needs, and the impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and costs.This analysis was based on data from the DCM:IMPact study, implementing cDCM in a physician network (n = 22 practices) and two day care centers (DCC) for community-dwelling persons with dementia over 6 months in Germany. Participants completed comprehensive assessments at baseline and 6 months after, soliciting sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, unmet needs, HRQoL and healthcare resource utilization. Patient characteristics and unmet needs were analyzed descriptively, and the impact of cDCM on costs and HRQoL was assessed using multivariable regression models.At baseline, patients from the physician network (n = 46) exhibited more pronounced neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPI mean score 14 versus 10, p = 0.075), were more frequently diagnosed with dementia (76 LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:39674842 C2 - pmc:PMC11865390 DO - DOI:10.1007/s41669-024-00548-w UR - https://pub.dzne.de/record/279171 ER -