A rapid review was conducted to identify published studies estimating the incremental costs or cost-effectiveness of long-term care interventions in four policy intervention areas:

• Reducing dependency

• Maximising coordination

• New models of care

• Unpaid carers.

Criteria for inclusion were that studies should:

• Relate to a long-term care intervention;

• Detail unit costs for individual resource categories (or allow for unit costs to be inferred);

• Detail levels of resource use by treatment arm; and

• Provide central (deterministic) cost estimates that could be replicated on the basis of reported unit costs and resource use.

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Details of studies selected for inclusion based on these criteria are below.