Publication: A cost-utility and budget impact analysis of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severse thalasssemic patients in Thailand
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2009-11-12
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2010-07-16
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BMC Public Health. Vol.10, (2010), 209
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Pattara Leelahavarong, Usa Chaikledkaew, Suradej Hongeng, Vijj Kasemsup, Lubell, Yoel, Yot Teerawattananon, พัทธรา ลีฬหวรงค์, อุษา ฉายเกล็ดแก้ว, สุรเดช หงส์อิง, วิชช์ เกษมทรัพย์, ยศ ตีระวัฒนานนท์ A cost-utility and budget impact analysis of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severse thalasssemic patients in Thailand. BMC Public Health. Vol.10, (2010), 209. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-10-209 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/2875
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A cost-utility and budget impact analysis of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severse thalasssemic patients in Thailand
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Background: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is the only curative treatment available to severse thalassemic pateints. The treatment, however, is very costly, particularly in the context of low and middle income countries, and no studies have been carried out to explore its economic justifiability. This study aimed to estimate the cost-utility of HSCT compared with blood transfusions combined wih iron chelating therapy (BT-ICT) for severse thalassemia in Thailand, and to investigate the effordability of HSCT using a budget impact analysis. Methods: A markov model was used to estimate the relevant costs and health outcomes over the patients' lifetimes taking a societal perspective as recommended by Thailand's health technology assessment guidelines. All future costs and outcomes were discounted at a rate of 3% per annum. Primary outcomes of interest were lifetime costs, quality adjusted life years (QALYs) gained, and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) in Thai baht (THB) per QALY gained. Results: Compared to BT-ICT, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio increased with patient age from 80,700 to 183,000 THB per QALY gained for related HSCT and 209,000 to 953,000 THB per QALY gained for unrelated HSCT among patients aged 1 to 15 years (US$1=34 THB). The gevernmental budget impact analysis showed that providing 200 related HSCT to patients aged 1 to 10 years, in accordance with the current infrastructure limitations, would initially require approximately 90 million additional THB per year. Conclusions: At a societal willingness to pay of 100,000 THB per QALY gained, related HSCT was likely to be a cost-effective and affordable treatment for young children with severe thalassemia in Thailand
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Funding support provided through the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) from the Thai Health Promotion Foundation, the Health System Research Institute (HSRI), and the Bureau of Health Policy and Strategy, Ministry of Public Health (Thailand)