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Published in final edited form as: Accid Anal Prev. 2013 Jan 11;61:10.1016/j.aap.2013.01.002. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2013.01.002

Table 6.

Sensitivity Analyses of Mean Motor Vehicle Collision Events and Undiscounted Costs per Person for 30 year period age 60-89 for Current Practice (CP) compared to Earlier Surgery (ES)

Case 1 - Mortality Rate
Reduced by Half
Case 2 - Wider Thresholds Case 3 - Surgery
Expenditure $6,000
Case 4 - Better Initial ADVS
distribution with 5.3% annual
depreciation
CP ES %
difference
CP ES %
difference
CP ES %
difference
CP ES %
difference
Mean
(sd)
Mean
(sd)
Mean
(sd)
Mean
(sd)
Mean
(sd)
Mean
(sd)
Mean
(sd)
Mean
(sd)
Motor
Vehicle
Collisions


1.7204

(1.65)


1.3433

(1.42)


−21.9%


1.6398

(160)


1.0210

(1.19)


−37.7%


1.4615

(151)


1.1506

(130)


−21.3%


1.1436

(1.19)


0.9659

(1.09)


−15.5%
Fatalities 0.0037
(0.06)
0.0028
(0.05)
−23.2% 0.0039
(0.06)
0.0026
(0.05)
−34.2% 0.0032
(0.06)
0.0025
(0.05)
−22.4% 0.0025
(0.05)
0.0021
(0.05)
−14.7%
MVC Cost $15,378
(83,745)
$11,989
(73,618)
−22.0% $15,024
(84,975)
$9,538
(68,584)
−36.5% $13,184
(78,236)
$10,367
(68,998)
−21.4% $9,991
(67,167)
$8,440
(61,936)
−15.5%
Surgery
Expenditure
age 60-64 $867
(991)
$1,269
(963)
46.4% $522
(878)
$1,293
(956)
147.7% $2,587
(2,971)
$3,790
(2,894)
46.5% $504
(868)
$1,247
(969)
147.5%
Surgery
Expenditure
age 65+ $314
(727)
$331
(743)
5.5% $355
(764)
$425
(818)
19.5% $721
(1,951)
$791
(2,029)
9.6% $1,373
(928)
$681
(948)
−50.4%
Total Cost $16,559
(83,690)
$13,590
(73,578)
−17.9% $15,901
(84,935)
$11,255
(68,557)
−29.2% $16,492
(78,152)
$14,948
(68,912)
−9.4% $11,868
(67,147)
$10,368
(61,921)
−12.6%
QALY 18.3
(5.5)
19.2
(5.8)
5.1% 15.3
(6.1)
16.8
(6.6)
9.7% 15.7
(6.2)
16.4
(6.5)
5.0% 15.6
(6.2)
16.5
(6.5)
5.7%
Mean Age at
Surgery


65.73
(9.0)


64.37
(8.2)


−2.1%


65.91
(8.4)


63.53
(7.0)
−3.6%

64.71
(8.3)


63.57
(7.3)
−1.8%

65.13
(17)


63.15
(16)


−3.0%
Probability of
Surgery


0.59
(0.49)


0.80
(0.40)


35.5%


0.44
(0.50)


0.86
(0.35)


95.8%


0.55
(0.50)


0.76
(0.42)
38.5%

0.94
(0.24)


0.96
(0.19)


2.7%