Costs of fall injuries in the STRIDE study: an economic evaluation of healthcare system heterogeneity and heterogeneity of treatment effect.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders (STRIDE) Study cluster-randomized 86 primary care practices in 10 healthcare systems to a patient-centered multifactorial fall injury prevention intervention or enhanced usual care, enrolling 5451 participants. We estimated total healthcare costs from participant-reported fall injuries receiving medical attention (FIMA) that were averted by the STRIDE intervention and tested for healthcare-system-level heterogeneity and heterogeneity of treatment effect (HTE).

Methods

Participants were community-dwelling adults age ≥ 70 at increased fall injury risk. We estimated practice-level total costs per person-year of follow-up (PYF), assigning unit costs to FIMA with and without an overnight hospital stay.

SUBMITTER: Ganz DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10399038 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature