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标题：Cost-effectiveness of a hypertension management programme in an elderly population: a Markov model
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作者：Gastón Perman ; Emiliano Rossi ; Gabriel D Waisman 等
期刊名称：Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
印刷版ISSN：1478-7547
电子版ISSN：1478-7547
出版年度：2011
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：4
DOI：10.1186/1478-7547-9-4
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：Mounting evidence shows that multi-intervention programmes for hypertension treatment are more effective than an isolated pharmacological strategy. Full economic evaluations of hypertension management programmes are scarce and contain methodological limitations. The aim of the study was to evaluate if a hypertension management programme for elderly patients is cost-effective compared to usual care from the perspective of a third-party payer. We built a cost-effectiveness model using published evidence of effectiveness of a comprehensive hypertension programme vs. usual care for patients 65 years or older at a community hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We explored incremental cost-effectiveness between groups. The model used a life-time framework adopting a third-party payer's perspective. Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) was calculated in International Dollars per life-year gained. We performed a probabilistic sensitivity analysis (PSA) to explore variable uncertainty. The ICER for the base-case of the
关键词：Gross Domestic Product ; Usual Care ; Discount Rate ; Usual Care Group ; Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis