A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Proposed National Falls Prevention Program - 05/08/11
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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.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Falls, Fall prevention, Cost-effectiveness, Medicare, Health policy
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This research was performed by the Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center based at the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. RAND is under contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Dr Keeler was supported by the National Institute on Aging as part of the UCLA Pepper Center Grant AG-10415. |
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The authors of this article are responsible for its contents. No statement in this article should be construed as an official position of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or of the US Department of Health and Human Services. |
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