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Table 1 Utility value of health states

From: Economic evaluation of a group-based exercise program for falls prevention among the older community-dwelling population

Utility

Value

Utility applied to 18 month model

Source

No fall

1

1

 

Fear of falling

0.94

 

Iglesias [25] (EQ-5D)

Fall

0.997

  

Fall – including proportion fear of falling

 

0.99336 (overall)

Probability of FOF: Freidman [26]

0.98466 (women)

Murphy [27]

Hip fracture

 

0.73

Peasgood [28]

Year 1

0.7

 

(95% CI: 0.64 - 0.77) (EQ-5D)

Year 2

0.8

 

(95% CI: 0.68 - 0.96) (EQ-5D)

Shoulder fracture

0.94

0.94

National Osteoporosis Foundation [29] (EQ-5D)

Wrist fracture

0.956

0.969 (overall)*

Peasgood [28]

0.966 (women)

(95% CI: 0.86 – 1.00) (EQ-5D)

Other fracture

0.94

0.958 (overall)

National Osteoporosis Foundation [29] (EQ-5D)

0.955 (women)

 
  1. *Disutility of a wrist and other fracture is applied for 12 months and for the remaining 6 months of the 18 month time horizon a proportionate disutility of fear of falling is applied.