Costs and benefits of multifactorial falls prevention in nursing homes in the Netherlands.

Objectives: To investigate whether the implementation of a multifactorial falls intervention in nursing homes is cost-beneficial and alleviates the professional workload.

Design: A comprehensive quantitative model was developed to calculate the impact of investments in multifactorial falls prevention in nursing homes in the Netherlands, comparing the fall incidence using intervention strategies in 1000 nursing home residents with the conditions of usual care over a five-year timeline.

Setting And Participants: We built a model combining several data sources regarding falls and injury prevalence in nursing home residents, health care costs, intervention costs and effectiveness, and demographic statistics.