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20934620

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-10-11
pubmed:abstractText
Falls are a major health concern for elderly people and cause substantial health care costs. The authors used meta-analytic findings on the effectiveness of fall prevention interventions to determine cost-effectiveness of a proposed Medicare fall prevention program for people who experience a recent fall. Using published clinical trial data, the authors constructed a population-based economic model and estimated that, in the base case, the program could prevent a half million people from falling again within a year. From the model, under most circumstances the cost-effectiveness ratio is less than $1500 per person prevented from experiencing a recurrent fall. Paying for a fall prevention program to increase the use of evidence-based interventions would be a cost-effective use of Medicare dollars.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1557-8623
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
751-66
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
A cost-effectiveness analysis of a proposed national falls prevention program.
pubmed:affiliation
Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, 3715 McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. shinyiwu@usc.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Meta-Analysis, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural