Exercise in preventing falls for men with prostate cancer: a modelled cost-utility analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Men who receive androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer (PCa) are a vulnerable falls population due to the side effects of treatment. The purpose of this paper is to determine the cost-effectiveness of exercise in preventing falls and fractures for this high-risk population in Australia.

Methods

A decision analytic model was constructed to evaluate the cost utility of an exercise intervention compared to usual care from a health system perspective. The intervention comprised two 1-h sessions of supervised exercise per week over 1 year for men with non-metastatic PCa receiving curative radiation therapy and ADT. A Markov model simulated the transition between five health states: (1) at risk of falling; (2) at recurrent risk of falling; (3) fracture

SUBMITTER: Edmunds K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9046330 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature