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Effectiveness and economic evaluation of a nurse delivered home exercise programme to prevent falls. 1: Randomised controlled trial
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Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of a trained district nurse individually prescribing a home based exercise programme to reduce falls and injuries in elderly people and to estimate the cost effectiveness of the programme. Design: Randomised controlled trial with one year's follow up. Setting: Community health service at a New Zealand hospital. Participants: 240 women and men aged 75 years and older. Intervention: 121 participants received the exercise programme (exercise group) and 119 received usual care (control group); 90% (211 of 233) completed the trial. Main outcome measures: Number of falls, number of injuries resulting from falls, costs of implementing the programme, and hospital costs as a result of falls. Results: Falls were reduced by 46% (incidence rate ratio 0.54, 95% confidence interval 0.32 to 0.90). Five hospital admissions were due to injuries caused by falls in the control group and none in the exercise group. The programme cost $NZ1803 (£523) (at 1998 prices) per fall prevented for delivering the programme and $NZ155 per fall prevented when hospital costs averted were considered. Conclusion: A home exercise programme, previously shown to be successful when delivered by a physiotherapist, was also effective in reducing falls when delivered by a trained nurse from within a home health service. Serious injuries and hospital admissions due to falls were also reduced. The programme was cost effective in participants aged 80 years and older compared with younger participants.
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- Authors
- Robertson, M. C., Devlin, N., Gardner, M. M., & Campbell, A. J.
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- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2001-03-24
- Volume
- 322
- Issue
- 7288
- Pages
- 697
- ISSN
- 0007-1447 (ISSN-L)
- 0959-8138
- 1468-5833
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- W2169525614
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- 87.07
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- en
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