Background The recent multicenter, randomized, openlabel INDEPENDENT study demonstrated that sevelamer improves survival in new to hemodialysis (HD) patients compared with calcium carbonate. The objective of this study was to determine the cost-effectiveness of sevelamer versus calcium carbonate for patients new to HD, using patient-level data from the INDEPENDENT study. Study design Cost-effectiveness analysis. Setting and population Adult patients new to HD in Italy. Model, perspective, timeframe A patient-level cost-effectiveness analysis was conducted from the perspective of the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, Italy’s national health service. The analysis was conducted for a 3-year time horizon. The cost of dialysis was excluded from the base case analysis. Intervention Sevelamer was compared to calcium carbonate. Outcomes Total life years (LYs), total costs, and the incremental cost per LY gained were calculated. Bootstrapping was used to estimate confidence intervals around LYs, costs, and cost-effectiveness and to calculate the costeffectiveness acceptability curve. Results Sevelamer was associated with a gain of 0.26 in LYs compared to calcium carbonate, over the 3-year time horizon. Total drug costs were €3,282 higher for sevelamer versus calcium carbonate, while total hospitalization costs were €2,020 lower for sevelamer versus calcium carbonate. The total incremental cost of sevelamer versus calcium carbonate was €1,262, resulting in a cost per LY gained of €4,897. The bootstrap analysis demonstrated that sevelamer was cost effective compared with calcium carbonate in 99.4 % of 10,000 bootstrap replicates, assuming a willingness-to-pay threshold of €20,000 per LY gained.

Erratum to Sevelamer is cost effective versus calcium carbonate for the first-line treatment of hyperphosphatemia in new patients to hemodialysis: a patient-level economic evaluation of the INDEPENDENT-HD study (J Nephrol, 10.1007/s40620-014-0122-8) / Ruggeri, Matteo; Bellasi, Antonio; Cipriani, Filippo; Molony, Donald; Bell, Cynthia; Russo, Domenico; Di Iorio, Biagio. - In: JN. JOURNAL OF NEPHROLOGY. - ISSN 1121-8428. - 27:6(2014), pp. 717-717. [10.1007/s40620-014-0128-2]

Erratum to Sevelamer is cost effective versus calcium carbonate for the first-line treatment of hyperphosphatemia in new patients to hemodialysis: a patient-level economic evaluation of the INDEPENDENT-HD study (J Nephrol, 10.1007/s40620-014-0122-8)

RUSSO, DOMENICO;
2014

Abstract

Background The recent multicenter, randomized, openlabel INDEPENDENT study demonstrated that sevelamer improves survival in new to hemodialysis (HD) patients compared with calcium carbonate. The objective of this study was to determine the cost-effectiveness of sevelamer versus calcium carbonate for patients new to HD, using patient-level data from the INDEPENDENT study. Study design Cost-effectiveness analysis. Setting and population Adult patients new to HD in Italy. Model, perspective, timeframe A patient-level cost-effectiveness analysis was conducted from the perspective of the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, Italy’s national health service. The analysis was conducted for a 3-year time horizon. The cost of dialysis was excluded from the base case analysis. Intervention Sevelamer was compared to calcium carbonate. Outcomes Total life years (LYs), total costs, and the incremental cost per LY gained were calculated. Bootstrapping was used to estimate confidence intervals around LYs, costs, and cost-effectiveness and to calculate the costeffectiveness acceptability curve. Results Sevelamer was associated with a gain of 0.26 in LYs compared to calcium carbonate, over the 3-year time horizon. Total drug costs were €3,282 higher for sevelamer versus calcium carbonate, while total hospitalization costs were €2,020 lower for sevelamer versus calcium carbonate. The total incremental cost of sevelamer versus calcium carbonate was €1,262, resulting in a cost per LY gained of €4,897. The bootstrap analysis demonstrated that sevelamer was cost effective compared with calcium carbonate in 99.4 % of 10,000 bootstrap replicates, assuming a willingness-to-pay threshold of €20,000 per LY gained.
2014
Erratum to Sevelamer is cost effective versus calcium carbonate for the first-line treatment of hyperphosphatemia in new patients to hemodialysis: a patient-level economic evaluation of the INDEPENDENT-HD study (J Nephrol, 10.1007/s40620-014-0122-8) / Ruggeri, Matteo; Bellasi, Antonio; Cipriani, Filippo; Molony, Donald; Bell, Cynthia; Russo, Domenico; Di Iorio, Biagio. - In: JN. JOURNAL OF NEPHROLOGY. - ISSN 1121-8428. - 27:6(2014), pp. 717-717. [10.1007/s40620-014-0128-2]
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