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| Cost effectiveness of preventing hip fractures in the elderly population using vitamin D and calcium | | Author(s) | D J Torgerson, J A Kanis |
| Journal title | Quarterly Journal of Medicine, vol 88, 1995 |
| Pages | pp 135-139 |
| Keywords | Fractures ; Osteoporosis ; Older women ; Vitamins ; Preventative medicine ; Cost effectiveness. |
| Annotation | Osteoporotic fractures among older people are a significant cause of mortality and morbidity and cost. Recent evidence suggests that vitamin D and calcium can reduce the incidence of hip fracture in older women. The authors estimated the costs of using either parenteral vitamin D alone, or oral vitamin D plus calcium, in a number of treatment strategies. These were: all women in a community setting; women with low body mass index (BMI) in the community; women in nursing homes; and women with low BMI in nursing homes. Treating either treatment on women with the lowest BMI reduced the cost of averting a hip fracture, as did targeting women in nursing homes. After removing cost savings for treatment costs, savings to the NHS occurred for all parenteral vitamin D strategies, but only one of the oral vitamin D and calcium strategies. Preventing fractures with injectable vitamin D is likely to produce savings for the NHS (national health service). The addition of calcium will increase costs significantly, unless the intervention is targeted on those at high risk. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000105008 A |
| Classmark | CUF: CLO: BD: CFE: LK2: WEC * |
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