The cost effectiveness of early assessment and intervention by a dedicated health and social care professional team for older adults in the emergency department compared to treatment-as-usual: Economic evaluation of the OPTI-MEND trial

• Dominic Trépel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: trepeld@tcd.ie

  ¶☯ DT and MR-A are Joint first authors

  Affiliations Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, University California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1421-2966

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• Manuel Ruiz-Adame ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ DT and MR-A are Joint first authors

  Affiliations Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Applied Economics Department, Department Campus of Melilla, University of Granada, Melilla, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-6087

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• Marica Cassarino,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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• Elayne Ahern,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9230-6776

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• Collette Devlin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Health Research Institute, School of Allied Health, Ageing Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

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• Katie Robinson,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Research Institute, School of Allied Health, Ageing Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

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• Íde O’Shaughnessy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Research Institute, School of Allied Health, Ageing Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

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• Gerard McCarthy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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• Cian Corcoran,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6113-6962

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• Rose Galvin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Research Institute, School of Allied Health, Ageing Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8171-224X

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