Health-care Cost Impact of Continued Anticoagulation With Rivaroxaban vs Aspirin for Prevention of Recurrent Symptomatic VTE in the EINSTEIN-CHOICE Trial Population

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BACKGROUND: Using data from the Reduced-Dose Rivaroxaban in the Long-Term Prevention of Recurrent Symptomatic Venous Thromboembolism (EINSTEIN-CHOICE) trial, this study assessed cost impact of continued anticoagulation therapy with rivaroxaban vs aspirin.

METHODS: Total health-care costs (2016 USD) associated with rivaroxaban and aspirin were calculated as the sum of clinical event costs and drug costs from a US managed care perspective. Clinical event costs were calculated by multiplying event rate by cost of care. One-year Kaplan-Meier clinical event rates for recurrent pulmonary embolism, recurrent DVT, all-cause mortality, and bleeding were obtained from EINSTEIN-CHOICE. Cost of care was determined by literature review. Drug costs were the product of drug price (wholesale acquisition cost) and treatment duration. A one-way sensitivity analysis was conducted.

RESULTS: Rivaroxaban users had lower per patient per month (PPPM) clinical event costs compared with aspirin users ($123, $243, and $381 for rivaroxaban 10 mg, rivaroxaban 20 mg, and aspirin, respectively). However, vs aspirin, PPPM total health-care costs were $24 higher for patients treated with rivaroxaban 10 mg ($143 higher for rivaroxaban 20 mg) due to higher cost of rivaroxaban. With a 15% discount for rivaroxaban 10 mg, the lower cost of clinical events for the rivaroxaban-treated patients more than fully offset the higher drug costs, and yielded a $19 lower total health-care cost.

CONCLUSIONS: Continued therapy with rivaroxaban 10 and 20 mg vs aspirin was associated with lower clinical event costs but higher total health-care costs; with a 15% drug discount rivaroxaban 10 mg had lower total health-care costs than aspirin.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:154

Enthalten in:

Chest - 154(2018), 6 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 1371-1378

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wells, Philip S [VerfasserIn]
Prins, Martin H [VerfasserIn]
Beyer-Westendorf, Jan [VerfasserIn]
Lensing, Anthonie W A [VerfasserIn]
Haskell, Lloyd [VerfasserIn]
Levitan, Bennett [VerfasserIn]
Laliberté, François [VerfasserIn]
Ashton, Veronica [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Yongling [VerfasserIn]
Lejeune, Dominique [VerfasserIn]
Crivera, Concetta [VerfasserIn]
Lefebvre, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Zhong [VerfasserIn]
Schein, Jeff [VerfasserIn]
Prandoni, Paolo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9NDF7JZ4M3
Anticoagulants
Aspirin
Cost comparison
Economic analysis
Extended treatment
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
R16CO5Y76E
Recurrent VTE
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Rivaroxaban

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Date Completed 24.09.2019

Date Revised 25.09.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.chest.2018.08.1059

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM288387058