Summary
Falls have a substantial impact on the quality of life, morbidity, and mortality of older adults, and are costly for our healthcare system.
Our objective is to examine the cost-effectiveness of effective falls prevention interventions identified through our systematic review and network meta-analysis. Our findings will help identify falls prevention interventions that are not only effective but also cost-effective. This project will answer the questions, “what are economically attractive and effective falls prevention interventions for older adults from the perspective of public healthcare payers to prevent injurious falls?”, and “how much will it cost to implement these interventions?”
We will also examine the predictors of falls-related hospital admissions, length of stay in the hospital, mortality and discharge disposition using administrative data from ICES.
Project Resources
Funded By
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigator
- Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai
Co-Investigator
- Ahmed Bayoumi
- Brenda Hemmelgarn
- Jayna Holroyd-Leduc
- Barbara Liu
- Sharon Marr
- Petros Pechlivanoglou
- Sharon Straus
- Andrea Tricco
Collaborators
- Carole Anderson
- Michael Campo
- Fabio Feldman
- Ravi Jain
- Susan Macaulay*
- Kelly McDonald
- James Silvius
- Jennifer Weldon
- Eric Wong
- Emre Yurga
KTP Project Staff
- Donna Plett
- Sujata Mishra
- Hailey Saunders
*Patient Partner: These individuals could be patients (an individual with a health condition), family members of a patient (e.g. parent, spouse, adult child or other close family member of a patient not capable of decision-making), caregivers (family, relative, friends or neighbours providing unpaid assistance to someone with a health condition/limitation), people with lived experience (those with first-hand experience of the topic of interest,), or members of the public at large.