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Community falls prevention for people who call an emergency ambulance after a fall
— an economic evaluation alongside a randomised controlled trial | | Author(s) | Tracey H Sach, Philippa A Logan, Carol A C Coupland |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 41, no 5, September 2012 |
| Pages | pp 635-641 |
| Source | http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.bgs.org.uk/ |
| Keywords | Falls ; Accident prevention ; Preventative medicine ; Ambulance services ; Community care ; Cost effectiveness ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | The present study estimated the cost-effectiveness of a community falls prevention service compared with usual care from a National Health Service and personal social services perspective over a 12 month trial period. Participants were people over 60 years of age living at home or in residential care who had fallen and called an emergency ambulance but were not taken to hospital. A total of 157 participants (82 interventions and 75 controls) were used to perform the economic evaluation. The mean difference in NHS and personal social service costs between the groups was £-1,551 per patient over one year, comparing the intervention and control groups. The intervention patients experienced on average 5.34 fewer falls over 12 months. The mean difference in QALYs (Quality Adjusted Life Years) was 0.070 in favour of the intervention group. The authors conclude that the community falls prevention service was found to be cost-effective in this high-risk group. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121005003 A |
| Classmark | OLF: OQ: LK2: O8: PA: WEC: 4C |
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