Real-world cost-effectiveness associated with infliximab maintenance therapy for moderate to severe Crohn's disease in China

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BACKGROUND: Infliximab was the first approved biologic treatment for moderate to severe Crohn's disease (MS-CD) in China. However, the cost-effectiveness of infliximab maintenance therapy (IMT) for MS-CD relative to conventional maintenance therapy remained unclarified.

AIM: To assess the cost-effectiveness of IMT for MS-CD in Chinese patients from the perspective of Chinese public insurance payer.

METHODS: A cohort of MS-CD patients managed in a Chinese tertiary care hospital was created to compare IMT with conventional maintenance therapy (CMT) for clinical outcomes and direct medical costs over a 1-year observation time using conventional regression analyses. A decision-analytic model with the generated evidence was constructed to assess the cost-effectiveness of IMT relative to CMT using reimbursed medical costs.

RESULTS: Based on the included 389 patients, IMT was associated with significantly higher disease remission chance [odds ratio: 4.060, P = 0.003], lower risk of developing new complications (odds ratio: 0.527, P = 0.010), higher utility value for quality of life (coefficient 0.822, P = 0.008), and lower total hospital costs related to disease management (coefficient -0.378, P = 0.008) than CMT. Base-case cost-effectiveness analysis estimated that IMT could cost Chinese health insurance payers ¥55260 to gain one quality-adjusted life year (QALY). The cost-effectiveness of IMT was mainly driven by the estimate of quality of life, treatment efficacy of maintenance therapy, mortality risk associated with active disease, and unit price of infliximab. The probability that IMT was cost-effective at a willingness-to-pay threshold of three times gross domestic product [2018 Chinese gross domestic product per capita (GDPPC)] was 86.4%.

CONCLUSION: IMT significantly improved real-world health outcomes and cost the Chinese public health insurance payers less than one GDPPC to gain one QALY in Chinese MS-CD patients.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

Enthalten in:

World journal of gastroenterology - 26(2020), 41 vom: 07. Nov., Seite 6455-6474

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shi, Ji-Hao [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xiao-Li [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Yi-Peng [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Zhou [VerfasserIn]
Fang, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Wen-Dong [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Qian [VerfasserIn]

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B72HH48FLU
Cost-effectiveness
Crohn’s disease
Direct medical costs
Infliximab
Journal Article
Maintenance therapy
Outcomes

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Date Completed 14.05.2021

Date Revised 14.05.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3748/wjg.v26.i41.6455

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318107023