Cost Effectiveness of Falls and Injury Prevention Strategies for Older Adults Living in Residential Aged Care Facilities

PharmacoEconomics

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1301-1310

  Church, Jody L ^a   Haas, Marion R ^a   Goodall, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EXERCISE; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HIP PROTECTOR; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESIDENTIAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; VISION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; AUSTRALIA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HOME FOR THE AGED; MARKOV CHAIN; MORTALITY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; VITAMIN D; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84948387171     PISSN: 11707690     EISSN: 11792027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40273-015-0313-8     Document Type: Article

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