Schur, Nadine; Brugaletta, Salvatore; Cequier, Angel; Iñiguez, Andrés; Serra, Antonio; Jiménez-Quevedo, Pilar; Mainar, Vicente; Campo, Gianluca; Tespili, Maurizio; den Heijer, Peter; Bethencourt, Armando; Vazquez, Nicolás; Valgimigli, Marco; Serruys, Patrick W; Ademi, Zanfina; Schwenkglenks, Matthias; Sabaté, Manel (2018). Cost-effectiveness of everolimus-eluting versus bare-metal stents in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: An analysis from the EXAMINATION randomized controlled trial. PLoS ONE, 13(8), e0201985. Public Library of Science 10.1371/journal.pone.0201985
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BACKGROUND
Use of everolimus-eluting stents (EES) has proven to be clinically effective and safe in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction but it remains unclear whether it is cost-effective compared to bare-metal stents (BMS) in the long-term. We sought to assess the cost-effectiveness of EES versus BMS based on the 5-year results of the EXAMINATION trial, from a Spanish health service perspective.
METHODS
Decision analysis of the use of EES versus BMS was based on the patient-level clinical outcome data of the EXAMINATION trial. The analysis adopted a lifelong time horizon, assuming that long-term survival was independent of the initial treatment strategy after the end of follow-up. Life-expectancy, health-state utility scores and unit costs were extracted from published literature and publicly available sources. Non-parametric bootstrapping was combined with probabilistic sensitivity analysis to co-assess the impact of patient-level variation and parameter uncertainty. The main outcomes were total costs and quality-adjusted life-years. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was expressed as cost per quality-adjusted life-years gained. Costs and effects were discounted at 3%.
RESULTS
The model predicted an average survival time in patients receiving EES and BMS of 10.52 and 10.38 undiscounted years, respectively. Over the life-long time horizon, the EES strategy was €430 more costly than BMS (€8,305 vs. €7,874), but went along with incremental gains of 0.10 quality-adjusted life-years. This resulted in an average incremental cost-effectiveness ratio over all simulations of €3,948 per quality-adjusted life-years gained and was below a willingness-to-pay threshold of €25,000 per quality-adjusted life-years gained in 86.9% of simulation runs.
CONCLUSIONS
Despite higher total costs relative to BMS, EES appeared to be a cost-effective therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients due to their incremental effectiveness. Predicted incremental cost-effectiveness ratios were below generally acceptable threshold values.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Cardiovascular Disorders (DHGE) > Clinic of Cardiology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Valgimigli, Marco |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
1932-6203 |
Publisher: |
Public Library of Science |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Amanda Valle |
Date Deposited: |
23 Aug 2018 09:33 |
Last Modified: |
25 Feb 2023 14:31 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1371/journal.pone.0201985 |
PubMed ID: |
30114230 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.119488 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/119488 |
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