Journal article
Home safety assessment and modification to reduce injurious falls in community-dwelling older adults: Cost-utility and equity analysis
F Pega, G Kvizhinadze, T Blakely, J Atkinson, N Wilson
Injury Prevention | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2016
Abstract
Background This study aimed to improve on previous modelling work to determine the health gain, cost-utility and health equity impacts from home safety assessment and modification (HSAM) for reducing injurious falls in older people. Methods The model was a Markov macrosimulation one that estimated quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained. The setting was a country with detailed epidemiological and cost data (New Zealand (NZ)) for 2011. A health system perspective was taken and a discount rate of 3% was used (for both health gain and costs). Intervention effectiveness estimates came from a Cochrane systematic review and NZ-specific intervention costs were from a randomised controlled trial...
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Funding Acknowledgements
This study was conducted as part of the BODE<SUP>3</SUP> of the University of Otago. This programme is primarily funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand (grant no: 10/248). This study was funded through this programme and also the University of Otago via a Health Sciences Career Development Postdoctoral Fellowship to Pega. No financial disclosures were reported by the authors of this paper.