Economic model of community-based falls prevention: seeking methodological solutions in evaluating the efficiency and equity of UK guideline recommendations

Table 3 Comparison of individual-level lifetime outcomes for the cohort aged 65 at baseline (n = 5,399) under 40-year societal cost-utility analysis

Outcomes^a,b	UC	RC	Incremental (% change)
Persons achieving ‘fair health-related innings’	4,415	4,450	35 (0.8)
Persons achieving ‘fair wellbeing-related innings’	4,482	4,504	22 (0.5)
Persons achieving ‘productive ageing’	622	639	17 (2.7)
Catastrophic private expenditure (CPE)
(1) Persons experiencing CPE	553	563	10 (1.8)
(2) Excluding intervention private co-payment from (1)	550	545	-5 (-0.9)
Excessive informal care burden
(3) Persons experiencing excessive informal care burden	1,753	1,738	-14 (-0.8)
(4) Excluding intervention TOC from (3)	1,753	1,729	-24 (-1.4)

Abbreviation: LTC Long-term care, MA fall Fall requiring medical attention, OOP Out-of-pocket, QALY Quality-adjusted life year, RC Recommended care, SES Socioeconomic status, TOC Time opportunity cost, UC Usual care
^aAll outcomes were averaged across 20 model trial runs with different random number seeds
^bSee ‘Individual-level lifetime outcomes’ under Methods for definitions of the outcomes

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